Thursday, May 9, 2019

3rd Week of Easter, Friday, 10-05-19

Acts 9:1-20 / John 6:52-59

Normally, a person has five senses - sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch.

These five senses help us to interact with other people and with our surroundings

But when we lose one or more of these senses for just a while or for a few days, we will know how inconvenient or disabled we will be.

If we lose the sense of smell, we won't be able to pick up odours or scents, but it may not be that terrible.

If we lose the sense of touch, we won't be able to feel whether anything is hot or cold. But it is still not that bad. If we lose the sense of taste, we won't be able to enjoy food as before. That can be quite depressing.

If we lose our hearing, the world is silent to us and we don't know what people are saying to us. That can be quite depressing.

But when we lose our sight, that can be quite terrible. We won't dare move around and we would need other people's help to get along.

In the 1st reading, Saul lost his sight after that experience of that bright light on the way to Damascus, and for three days he took neither food nor drink.

For three days, Saul was totally helpless. He was so different from the ruthless and blood-thirsty persecutor that he was before.

Then the Lord sent Ananias to heal him and restored his sight, and he got baptised and then he began to preach with these words "Jesus is the Son of God".

Most of us have the faculty of our five senses, but it takes faith to acknowledge that Jesus is the Son of God, who came to us to give us the Bread of Life.

Jesus is our Bread of Life, our real food and real drink, and with Him living in us, there is nothing else we shall want. With Him we have life and life to the full, because it is a life with God and in God.