Why not be what we expect?

The texts today from the Roman Catholic Lectionary offer opportunity to consider how our expectations can be impediments to our growth in our relationship with the Divine. The resurrection of Jesus presented difficulties to the ideas and philosophies of the Greeks in Corinth  because they considered the Spirit to be confined by the body. Friar Jude Winkler comments that the Greeks could not appreciate that a resurrected body would be a means of life after death. Friar Jude asserts that Paul is "gutsy" to cite the many eye witnesses to the Resurrection to a skeptical audience who could verify his claims by communication with the witnesses. The thought that God could be as the Corinthians expected and He would have made more converts is quickly dismissed as we consider the phenomenal growth of the Way in the time of Paul and his disciples. The Gospel of John, which is strongly opinionated and often dualistic proclaims Jesus as Way, Truth and Life. The dialogue with Philip reminds us that we still like to "tweak'" "our God" so that the direction or way is more in line with our desires, the "truth" accommodates  what we know and the life to which we are invited to be the Body of Christ must be too holy for our aspirations of intimate communion with the Divine. We expect the eternal, infinite and transcendent to be something familiar? What's with that?