Following Jesus
My son Peter is 5. He loves to watch Bibleman. That is a video series about a superhero who defeats evil by quoting bible verses. Bibleman talks about the importance of following Jesus. Now Peter asks me, “How does he know where Jesus is going?” It is a fair question. It is easy to imagine we are following Jesus when we are really following our own desires. What I told him was that the church is the body of Christ. When you follow a person you follow their body. That is how you tell where they are going. We don’t wonder if somewhere along the way the head and body became separated. When Jesus appears to go left and I want to go right I could imagine that His body was not really His and that His real body was now invisible and was actually going right. But would Jesus ever make it that complicated? Depends how badly I want to go right?
Children have a way of making things simple. From today’s gospel, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children” (Mt 11:25).
