THE WORD BECAME FLESH

Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter, 2022

Acts 17:15,22-18:1

Ps 148

John 16:12-15

The Spirit of Truth

In the first reading (Acts 17:15,22-18:1), Paul addresses the people of Athens as seekers fourth. He declares that God wanted all nations to seek the deity and by feeling their way towards him to succeed in finding him. Moreover, he says that God, who wants all people to seek and find him, has drawn close to them because it is in him that we live and move and have our being. Paul can announce to the people of Athens that the God whom they have been seeking has been fully revealed in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, who is God’s beloved Son. We have come to believe in Jesus as the full revelation of God, but that doesn’t mean that our seeking has come to an end. Those of us who celebrate Jesus as the truth remain seekers after truth because we recognize that faith is not a perfect vision. As Paul says in his first letter to the Corinthians, ‘now we see as in a mirror, dimly’. 

Even as people of faith, we remain on a journey towards what Jesus in the gospel reading (Jn 16:12-15) calls ‘the complete truth’. None of us, no matter how strong and deep our faith, has a complete truth. Jesus declares that one of the roles of the Holy Spirit is to lead us to the complete truth, by calling to our minds all that Jesus has said and done. As Jesus declares in our reading, ‘all he tells you will be taken from what is mine’. We are on a shared journey led by the Holy Spirit and while we may be further on that journey that the people of Athens in the first reading we still have a way to go. Every day, as people of faith we set out again calling on the Holy Spirit to lead us ever closer to the complete truth.

Let us pray: Lord Jesus, fill me with your Holy Spirit and guide me in your way of life, truth, and goodness. Amen.

+Remain blessed