It's ironic that we should learn a valuable lesson from Herod the Tetrarch. He had heard about Jesus and was curious; he thought he might be the ghost of John the Baptists, whom he had beheaded. Elijah or one of the prophets was suggested...it is interesting that Luke notes that Herod kept trying to see him. (cf. Lk 9:9).
We might ask ourselves if our interest in knowing and seeing Jesus is so strong that we keep trying to see him. Is our preoccupation with work, family, pleasure so great that it causes nearsightedness,blurring our vision and preventing us from seeing Jesus in the people and events of every day? Or even taking time to see him in our prayer, or in reading about him in the New Testament? We might ask ourselves what we are trying to see. If Jesus is not at the top of the list, we might take it as a call to refocus.
Bro. Rene
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