Divinity in Humanity
March 14, 2008
Gospel: Jn 10:31-42
When Jesus came into this World, his humanity was a major issue to his enemies. I mean the scribes and Pharisees could not accept him as the messiah, the son of God; they had seen him growing up as the son of a carpenter, who hailed from the inconspicuous town of Nazareth. That is why, in today’s gospel, they accuse him of blasphemy.
Today, when we look back through the eyes of faith, we are amazed that the people of that time were so blind to the divinity of Christ. So much so that we tend to lend more importance to his divinity, easily overlooking the very humanity that made it so hard for the Pharisees of his time to accept his teachings. People of Jesus’ time were wrong in thinking that he was only human and not divine, and we, too, can be wrong if we consider that he was only divine and not human. Jesus is fully divine and fully human in all things but sin.
During the coming week, we will meditate once more on the passion and death of Jesus. The passion that Jesus went through was not a fiction. When He struggled at the garden of Gethsemane to accept the suffering from his father, he experienced the same confusion that we experience, time and again, when face to face with temptation. When Judas betrayed him and Peter denied him he experienced the same sadness we have known when someone close to us hurt us deeply. When soldiers mocked him and spat upon him, He was just as humiliated as we would have been, and would surely be, whenever we had to pass through humiliation.
When we understand this truth and meditate upon it, only then will we be able to appreciate the salvation brought by Jesus and assimilate his good news in our lives. May God bless us.
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