Acts 11:1-18 / John 10:1-10
When reading the book of the Acts of the Apostles, there is one thought that might come to our minds.
The experience of God in the early Church seems to be so profound and it almost seems like a regular occurrence.
There was the vision of Peter which was accepted without question.
There was the vision of an angel standing in the man’s house, and the angel had a message for the man.
And then the Holy Spirit came down upon the group in the same way as it was at Pentecost.
So, in that passage of the 1st reading, the visions and signs of the spiritual seem to be like a normal and regular occurrence.
That make us wonder what happened to those visions and signs in today’s Church.
But a deeper question to reflect upon is how do we sense the promptings of God.
In the gospel, Jesus says that the shepherd calls out, one by one, to his own sheep and he leads them out.
As much as we want to hear the voice of our Good Shepherd, the world has too many loud and distracting voices and noises.
Hence, we need to get back to the silence of prayer and be still before the Lord.
Only then can we listen to the voice of our Good Shepherd and understand the promptings of the Holy Spirit.
Then we will be able to see the signs and wonders that God is showing us.