The Capacity for God-vision
September 5, 2019: Celebrating Mother Teresa of Kolkata
Colossians 1:9-14; Luke 5: 1-11
Jesus demonstrates to the first disciples an extraordinary capacity of perceiving reality. We can call this God-vision... the capacity to see beyond the apparent. Mother Teresa, an incomparable contemporary Saint, had that capacity too: that enabled her to hear that cry, "I Thirst", amidst all the hustle and bustle of a railway platform! She met God in the railway station, not at the Cathedral!
The capacity of God-vision is the ability to perceive even what is not yet. This is accounted for in two levels in the Gospel today. Jesus seeing the catch of fish where it wasn't apparently and Jesus seeing the possibly of Peter and others with him becoming fishers of men. Jesus promises them that he will develop in them the same capacity: the capacity for God-vision. And he did.
"I am just a pencil in the hands of God", said Mother Teresa, allowing God to design a marvelous portrait of Godself in the works that she began! When we cooperate with this God-vision, God brings out of us the best that we never even imagined. And eventually as persons of God, God will give us the capacity to look at the best in a person even at a point where it is not apparently visible.
St Paul had become an expert fisher of humans and we see him manifest that quality of God-vision, he perceives in the people of Colossia a people who are called for great things and not merely new converts.
To be true disciples and apostles of the Lord, we need to surrender to the God-vision and grow in our capacity for God-vision.