so that where I am, you also may be. Yet you know the way where I am going.”
Thomas said to him, “Lord, we don’t know where you are going; how can we know the way?”
Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father but through me.
REFLECTION:
The first reading from Acts unequivocally states what the “Good News” is all about, namely,
that God has fulfilled in Jesus, the promise he made to Israel. They may have rejected him, but the promise was nonetheless fulfilled.
And in the Gospel, we find a clear and undeniable proof of this fulfillment: Jesus proclaiming himself to be the only way to the Father.
Scripture reminds us that God never goes back on his word. He fulfills all his promises.
We human beings may not recognize it when it happens, we may even refuse to acknowledge it – as did Israel in Jesus‘ time.
We may be unfaithful. But God never is. His word is true and it never wavers.
In another part of Scripture we are told that the word God speaks never returns to him empty-handed,
it always fulfills what it has set out to accomplish. (Is. 55:11) And so even when humanity sinned and fell short of his glory,
he himself sent his only Begotten Son to save us and to show us the way back.
It was an action that was born out of immense love, one that – like his word – “never fails”. (1 Cor. 13:8)
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