+ It is important in asking God's advice and help to accept it as he gives it and not as we think it ought to be given. In the gospel passage Jesus tells the people gathered see him as wonderworker – no sign will be given your generation except the sign of Jonah (who spent three days inside of a fish, signifying the three days Jesus would spend in the earth after his death). He further tells them that they do not even understand signs at all: when you have the reality standing right in front of you, you need no sign at all. When you have me standing in front of you, you do not need signposts and posters.
In the Scriptures we read, the homily we hear, the Eucharist we share and the apostolic acts of charity and self-sacrificial service that we perform with the power of Jesus in us: we have all the "signs" we need that this is the right path and that it will lead us to God in his fullness one day!
In the first reading St. Paul talks about the obedience of faith that is now possible even for the Gentiles. This obedience of putting faith into practice because God invites us to and empowers us to will also produce an undeniable sign of God's reality, presence, power and providence!
If today you hear the voice of God, harden not your hearts – don't insist on seeing signs when Jesus himself is right here in front of you, and in fact, inside of you!
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