It is sometimes easy to forget that the people we read about in Scripture were real people. Even though they were devoted followers of Christ they were still human and experienced all the doubts and frustrations that we still struggle with today.
Imagine the reaction of the Apostles when Jesus tells them to feed a crowd of thousands with five loaves of bread and two fish. How would you react? But they obey because it is Jesus who asks them. They do not understand necessarily, but they obey. Then Jesus works a miracle and the Apostles confusion and frustration is turned to joy and gratitude.
Trusting in God is perhaps the hardest thing for us to do. This is the recurring theme in the history of our salvation; do we trust in God? In our small finite lives here on earth we cannot see the completeness of God’s plan for us. We are children who cannot know everything the parent has in mind. But Christ’s teachings are God’s teachings, and we are called to obey them.
God also wants us to understand His teachings, that is why He has given us His Church, to explain His teachings to us. Even so, we remain finite creatures and our job is to obey our creator even if we do not fully understand the whys and hows.
Above all God wants our trust, faith, and obedience. With those He will work wonders that far exceed anything we could accomplish on our own.
Pax Vobiscum
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ