Encountering Christ
1 Jn 2:22-28; Jn 1: 19-28
The identity of Jesus as both God and Human was a major issue of controversies in the early Church. The first reading we have today is an indication to such feuds that existed. What matters, as John so rightly points out there, is not the philosophical and theological justification of who Jesus is; but the personal experience of the person of Christ.
John the Baptist foretold the coming of Christ and pointed out when Christ really came. His prophetic gift have him the privilege of understanding Jesus and identifying Jesus when he came. Today we would do well to pray for this grace... To identify Jesus when he comes so that the encounter may enrich our life and being meaning to it. In varied ways, in our neighbours, in our brothers and sisters, specially in those who are in dire need and helplessness, we are challenged to encounter Christ who is God but who had deigned to assume or nature and live in the poor and the oppressed!