Our senses help us to interact with our surroundings and to be able to understand how to respond accordingly.
So by what we see, hear, touch, smell and taste, we would know what we are encountering and to decide on the next course of action.
But there is only so much that we know about what is around us.
There is much more than what we can understand with our senses.
That being the case, then what we cannot encounter and comprehend with our senses, we certainly would need help.
In the gospel, the incident in the synagogue where the man possessed by the evil spirit and shouting at Jesus was something that the people cannot understand or comprehend.
And when Jesus cast out the evil spirit from the man, the people were astonished and amazed.
But St. Paul reminds us in the 1st reading that the Holy Spirit reaches the depths of everything.
With the help of the Holy Spirit, we will be able to judge what we encounter and comprehend with our senses.
That is why prayer is so important in the life of a Christian.
Because when we pray, we let the Holy Spirit reveal to us what God wants us to know about ourselves.
Only when we are able to understand ourselves, then we will be able to see what is God’s plan for us and what He wants us to do.