Have Jesus, and have everything... (reflection for May 14, 2006)

In today's Gospel, Jesus used the vine to represent the bond between us and Him. He said that we are the branch and He is the vine and we are nothing without Him.

In reality, the branch from a vine will be nourished and bear fruit if it is connected to the vine, the nutrients that it receives from the soil will also be given to the branch, then it will live, grow, and bear fruit.

The same goes with our spiritual life, we will be indeed lifeless once cutted off from the vine. One of the goals in life is too find Jesus. We don't need to find Him. For He is right in front of us but we don't see Him for we have not open our eyes yet. Some people who had visions of seeing God and Mary said the similar thing, they wished that they were dead, (parang gusto na nilang mamatay)... so anyway, those people had their spiritual life to be more stronger and filled with more love. We can't deny the fact that there are still people who don't believe because they have not seen any miracle yet.

Well... That's the problem with people today, demanding, before believing. That is also one of the defects at the time of Jesus, remember when Jesus was asked to change the water into wine? or in the cross when He was mocked to go down from it? Well... up to now, there are still people who are like that, demanding for miracles before they could accept it as the truth.

Seek Him, and you shall find Him. Have Him, then have everything...