Eyes of Faith

Do you see God’s divine presence in the ordinary things and events in your daily life?

In the Book of Exodus, after the people of Israel were liberated from the slavery in Egypt, they dramatically changed their perspective when they are confronted with hunger and difficulties in the dessert.  They suddenly want to go back to Egypt, they have forgotten that they were slaves in Egypt.  Egypt suddenly became a place of plenty; they have forgotten that they are freemen in the desert.  Desert now became for them a place of danger and even a place of death.  But God’s saving action came.  God sends sweet bread in the morning called manna and large flocks of quails in the evening so that they can have enough food to eat in the desert. …and manna for food and the people questioned.  “What is it?”  They even fail to see God’s gift of food for them through this ordinary quails and manna.

Will they see it?  How can they see it?  They cannot see it without putting on the eyes of faith.

Jesus fed five thousand men (excluding women and children) and at the end of the story the people would like to make Jesus their King, but Jesus doesn’t want to be a political king, and so he left them.  People saw the miracle as something political.  Seemingly, the people are saying:

Let us make him King because HE can feed us, He can make our food multiply by thousands, we don’t have to work anymore, all we need to do is sit and listen.

Jesus saw their way of thinking and said NO … “you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves”.

Meaning the people failed to see the deeper reality, the deeper meaning in the multiplication of the bread.  And so as a way of leading them to the meaning he said,

“Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to eternal life which the son of man will give you”

And so the people asked, “What should we do?”  And Jesus answered to the meaning of the multiplication of the loaves when he said,

“BELIEVE IN THE ONE SENT BY THE FATHER”  “I am the bread of life; he who comes to me shall not hunger, and he who believes in me shall never thirst.”

Eat my flesh and hunger no more, drink my blood and thirds no more!  Now brothers and sisters, who can understand that?  Who can understand the words and actions of Jesus?  No one except those who have put on the EYES OF FAITH, without the eyes of faith you cannot and will never understand Jesus.