Where is Christ in the World?

Are you the One who is to come or should we look for another?

This is the question of John's disciples to Jesus.  They are looking about for the long awaited Messiah and want to know if Jesus is the One.  Jesus' response to them is telling:

Go tell John what you see and hear: the blind receive their sight, cripples walk, lepers are cured, the deaf hear, dead men are raised to life, and the poor have good news preached to them.

Jesus did not come as a warrior, cultural or otherwise.  He did not come in ostentatious majesty with pomp and circumstance.  He came as a humble newborn and served his entire life in a humble ministry of service to others offering mercy to all.

Many despair of finding Christ in the world today, perhaps because the church is so often obsessed with political power and capital campaigns that are not at all about the works of mercy.  As scandals and hypocrisy mark church leadership, people look for where Christ is on earth.  But today is the Sunday of rejoicing because despite all this - which existed in Jesus' time too - we can still find Christ among those carrying out these works of mercy in our world today.  It is in them, as in Jesus' original coming, that we will find him - there we will find the church living and true.