1 Jn 3:11-21 / Jn 1:43-51
Most of us are instinctively curious from an early age. From that very early moment of trying to figure out what our fingers and toes are all about, we’ve been poking, probing, and exploring the fascinating world around us — and not just the outer world, but our inner world as well.
Giving our curiosity free range to roam can be both pleasant and entertaining, but it inevitably brings us face to face with parts of reality, parts of the truth about us, that may not be so attractive. And what then? Will our hearts be glad that we have found the truth as Philip did in today’s gospel, or will we flee it and close our eyes to it?
The truth of Jesus which Philip and his friends discovered would change their lives radically and set them on a very different road forever. And as they slowly came to understand this, they did not turn away and flee the truth. They embraced it with all the hope and confidence that comes from knowing that one does not walk alone or unaided.
There is no truth about us or about our lives that is too large for us to embrace — not one! So open your eyes wide and cast your gaze in those places that the Lord shows you. You have nothing to fear, and everything to gain. The truth really can set you free.
