Why do people seek signs? Do you seek signs?
Jesus questioned why his own generation still seek signs.
We hear about people going to worship places, pilgrimages, healing centers, etc.
What are they looking for in those places?
Is seeking signs necessary for our spiritual growth? Are signs necessary for salvation?
What we call miracles today, the evangelists in the Scriptures called signs.
Gail O’Day making reference to the gospel of John noted “John uses the term sign to refer to Jesus’ miracles, because for John the significance of the miracle does not rest solely in the act of the miracle itself, but in that to which the miracle points. That is, the deed reveals the doer and points to the significance of the deed”
So, these miracles, these signs, point beyond the deed to the doer of the deed, they point to Jesus himself.
Like the Pharisee, sometimes in life, we fail to understand that we should not focus on the miracles but on the doer of the miracles.
Jesus came to bring us salvation and not signs.
We remember the Baltimore Catechism question: “Why God made me? The answer is “God made me to love him, to know him, to serve him in this life and to be within the next.”
God did not make us for signs, rather he made us for salvation.
Jesus did not become flesh in order to provide us with signs and miracles, rather be became one of us in order to bring us salvation.
If we have Jesus why then do, we seek signs?
Saint James said in the first reading (1:1-11), may our faith produce perseverance.
May we ask in “faith and not doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed about by the wind”.
Have a blessed week
