17 July 2019
Wednesday of the Fifteenth Week of Ordinary Time
How well do you know the Father? If we are honest, we know the Father somewhat well, but not nearly as well as we could. If we are even more honest, none of what we know of the Father (beyond some bare-bones facts such as the reality of His existence) is the product of our own ingenuity. Jesus stresses this today when He points out that “no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son wishes to reveal Him” (Mt. 11:27). If we know and love the Father, it is because Jesus has arranged an introduction.
When someone is with us a long time, we can begin to take them for granted. The Father is with us so much and so fully that we may even take Him for granted. But, if we remember all the ways we have learned about the Father through Jesus, and the ways that the Sacraments Jesus gave us have helped us to experience the Father’s love, we realize what a gift we have in this relationship. It could easily have not been ours, and yet we have it all the same.
We have a marvelous gift in our relationship with the Father, a gift we should never take for granted.