Open our eyes to see the Way

Matthew’s Gospel in the texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary, today, shows Jesus response to the desire for a sign from the Pharisees. The request of the Pharisees is often our request. The prophet Micah addresses the need of a “direct answer” from God about what He requires with a detailing of the great saving deeds of God and of the inappropriateness of the ‘easy’ response to God. The message is to be love as we have experienced love, but Micah yields to provide some ‘concrete’ strategies to be Love. The psalmist echoes “Divine exasperation with humanity”. The path which the Divine offers requires discipline and surrender. We seek the list of things to do but the process is difficult and we want to try it some other way. Jesus invites us to open our eyes. The Spirit makes the Kingdom immanent. We need to “open the eyes of Faith” and see the Way.