WEDNESDAY, THIRD WEEK OF EASTERTIDE
Acts 8: 1-8 Ps 66: 1-7 Jn 6: 35-40
WHEN LIFE SCATTERS YOU, STAY CLOSE TO WHAT FEEDS YOU
In our day-to-day life we experience scattering in very ordinary ways; may be a transfer we did not want, migration or relocation, a job loss, a family crisis, a health diagnosis and even emotional scattering like; burnout, confusion, loss of direction. In situations like this our instinct would ask: “Why is my life being disrupted?” But Jesus teaches us something different today.
In the first reading, persecution scatters the early believers out of Jerusalem. The Church looks weak and like a failure. But something surprising happens: wherever they go, they carry the Gospel, God uses this scattering to spread life. This is not an isolated pattern in the Bible. See the life of Joseph in Egypt – sold by his brothers, scattered from his family, yet later able to say: “You meant evil against me, but God meant it for good” (Gen 50:20). Or the people of Israel in exile – uprooted, humiliated, and yet purified in faith. God does not cause the suffering, but he redeems it.
In the Gospel, Jesus says “I am the Bread of Life… whoever comes to me will never hunger.” Here is the inner answer to outer scattering. Life can uproot us, but Christ roots us. We may be displaced, but we are not empty. Even in suffering and displacement, the Church teaches that nothing is wasted when lived in Christ. The Cross itself looked like total scattering -the disciples fled, the community collapsed yet the Resurrection turned that moment of collapse into the birth of the Church.
Therefore, in situation like this we should ask, “How can God use this disruption to bring life to others and depth to me?” Many people discover their deepest faith not when life is settled, but when life is shaken. They pray and listen differently. They find Christ not as an idea, but as Bread that sustains them day by day. The Risen Lord does not promise that you will never be scattered. He promises that you will never be empty if you come to him, and allow him to be our life’s centre.
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Response: Cry out with joy to God, all the earth.
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