Deacon Larry

  April 16, 2009

Thursday in Octave of Easter

Acts 3: 11-26; Luke 24: 35-48

Dc. Larry Brockman

Lot’s of people, even so-called Christians, Deny Christ. 

Both readings today give us a glimpse of that.  Peter tells how the people were blind to the Old Testament prophesies.  They were blind to Christ when he came.  And even the Gospel story hints at denial.  The Apostles couldn’t believe their eyes when Jesus stood before them in a resurrected state.  Reading their minds and hearts, Jesus told them they were not seeing a ghost.  And if they had believed in Christ, then they would have expected his resurrection, because of all the scriptures that pointed to the events that led up to and happened during Holy Week. 

We can be the same way.  We can believe, but not really believe.  We recite our creeds, and we can celebrate the cycle of the death and resurrection of Jesus each year in the Church’s liturgies.  We can pray constantly to the Lord in an apparent act of Faith.  But do we really believe all that we profess?  And, do we recognize that whatever comes, is God’s answer to those prayers? 

God’s ways are not our ways.  They are different and can be very hard to imagine.  And yet, our all loving God means the best for us who believe. 

So, in this season of Easter, make your best effort to recognize the risen Christ.  Make your best effort to recognize that God does answer your prayers.  Try to see God’s will for you in all the clutter and difficulties of life.  Sometimes it’s hard.  But when you believe, you know that God is there with you every step of the way. 

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