Jesus - an Experience!

Wednesday, 3rd week in Eastertide

18th April,  2018: Acts 8: 1b-8; Jn 6: 35-40

When things were getting worse the believers were getting stronger. They were scattered, but once in diaspora they continued their witnessing. There was something in them that made them just reckless about their new experience. That experience was so gripping that it made them forget all the pain they had to go through.

We keep receiving news after news of people who are troubled, tortured, maltreated and threatened at the hands of the mindless and irrational fanatics these days. These brothers and sisters too are capable of it because they are gripped by the experience they have had of the Risen one.

Just yesterday we were discussing about some youngsters who have expressed their willingness to go to Syria, to be of assistance and consolation to the people who are suffering due to inhumanity there. What a radical choice -  will it be possible without being gripped by a life changing experience? 

Jesus cannot remain for me an idea to be discussed, nor a principle to be fought for, but a person to be loved, a person to be experienced! For me today Jesus has to become that experience,  that experience which grips me to a total transformation that I will fear nothing, for I know my Lord will raise me up on the last day, come what may!