Waiting for Revelation

The truth of a situation sometimes comes to light after some patient waiting. Gama’li-el in the text from the Book of Acts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary for today encourages the religious authorities to wait and see if the actions of the followers of Jesus are supported by God. If they are, they will endure and opposition to them will be futile. So often we are sure what things are “of God” and what things are not. Some friends attribute getting a parking space downtown or catching the bus at the right time as being circumstances arranged by the grace of the Divine. It is an alternate viewpoint to try and see the Divine in all life events so that the graced times are many and not unusual. The psalmist exhorts believers to take courage and wait for the Lord! In the Gospel of John, the people of the other side of the Sea of Galilee experience the grace of a visit by Jesus. as the nourishment of their persons continues, the message of holiness is presented in actions which attend to the whole person and which indicate the desire of the Divine to be in an intimate and life giving relationship to all including but not limited to the ‘twelve tribes” of Israel. All who attended and waited on the Lord received their fullness to move toward personal holiness.