Anxious to see Jesus?
Thursday, 25th week in Ordinary Time
Hag 1: 1-8; Lk 9: 7-9
We see in the Gospel today, Herod anxious to see Jesus! Are we too anxious to see Jesus? For Herod it was because of a feeling of threat and a feeling of curiosity. If not for these two, he would have seen him much before Jesus was taken around for crucifixion. Threatened because he thought there was John to challenge him again. Curious because he wanted to excite himself with some spectacle.
If we are moved by these two, a feeling of threat or a feeling of curiosity, we would only be anxious and needlessly so. We would ever be incomplete and empty as Haggai points out today. Anxiety would only blind our eyes and block our hearts. If we surrender with serenity we would see and feel Jesus right beside us, intimately close to us.