Gospel: John 1: 29-34
"I did not recognize him." These are stunning words from John the Baptist, but we ourselves might well understand what they mean in our own experience. For of ourselves we cannot recognize the Lord; our own lights are unable to see him. The Lord Jesus has to be revealed to us by God as in the life of John and everyone else in the Gospel stories.
For John, he came to know the Lord Jesus through the voice of God at the Jordan River. For others in the Gospels it is through an experience of healing, his presence at a meal, or an invitation to follow him. Every experience is different and unique. God did not create a race of clones. God created individual human beings, each one unrepeatable and unique. And so each person has a unique and unrepeatable relationship with God.
Today we are invited to reflect upon how God has revealed himself to us in our lives. What is our unique and unrepeatable relationship with God? Where and how do we encounter the Lord each day?
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