John wants to be sure

A sense of security is a good thing. However, it must be based on sound principles. It is not right to always believe in everything and everyone. The proverb says, “Trust, but check!”

John the Baptist knew that he was preparing the way for the future anticipated Messiah. You have done your duty, honestly. However, when Jesus, whom he had previously baptized, began to move through Palestine when this Jesus began to behave quite differently than an ordinary man when people began to speak of Jesus: “A great prophet has risen among us” and: “God has visited his people” (Luke 7, 16) the people praised God. And there was a report of him throughout all Judaea, and all his disciples; John wanted to be sure that he was the one who was preparing the way, so he called his two disciples and sent them to Jesus with the question: “Are you the one who is to come, or should we wait for another” (Lk 7:19). The question is justified. We have already explained John’s actions, the meaning of his life. John wants nothing more than to fulfill what God has set for him in the womb of his mother, Elizabeth. John wants to do the will of God more faithfully than his father, Zechariah, who died for John’s birth due to doubt.

Not only did Jesus have his disciples-apostles, but they always gathered around the prophet once more, sometimes fewer men and women, and formed a kind of school around them. We know that Ondrej and certainly Filip also belonged to John’s disciples. After the baptism of the Lord Jesus, John said, “Behold, the Lamb of God” (Jn 1:35). And the two disciples heard these words, and they followed Jesus. Even now, John sends two disciples with a question that they will say to Jesus: “Are you the one who is to come, or should we wait for another” (Lk 7:19). Indeed, Jesus did not give a verbal answer at once because, as this meeting is described by the evangelist Luke: “At that very hour he healed many ailments, diseases, and evil spirits and gave sight to many blind people” (Luke 7:21).

Indeed, Jesus also wanted to show John’s disciples his power in deeds. They saw all this. They were involved in miracles that John had never done. Thus he convinced them to tell John the testimony of the truth, not second hand. But then he will turn to the messengers and say, “Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are clean, the deaf hear, the dead rise, the gospel is preached to the poor. And blessed is he who does not offend me” (Lk 7: 22-23). So John receives a message that Jesus only spoke once. After all, Jesus will say more often after healing: “… go, show yourself to the priest and offer for your cleansing the sacrifice that Moses prescribed for them” (Mark 1:44). And it shall be when the bread is multiplied that they shall make him king. When he heals a blind man, he forbids him to talk about it. It will tell Jesus to thank John for his work, which was done honestly. Jesus knew that John did not have it easy, and yet he fulfilled his mission as excellent. Jesus’ words also evidence this: “Verily I say unto you, He was not born greater than John the Baptist among children and women” (Mt 11:11). This proof of certainty, given to Jesus John, is serious proof for us. Often, even in our lives, events take place that, in weakness, we would quickly question this or that command, the teachings of Jesus Christ. Jesus’ miracles, which we often fail to explain with our natural reason, are a lesson for us to accept things in our lives today that are beyond our comprehension. We cannot allow us to believe only in something, and not in everything that the Church presents to us, as an orthodox teacher of the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Whenever we do not know many things, but when we accept them, they will enrich us, not to our detriment. In life, we ​​could be convinced of the power, truth, goal, value of Jesus’ teaching, as John’s disciples. Even immediately, Jesus does not show us anything but gives us evidence of his love. It gives us time to learn, to understand his teachings. He does not do violence; he does not force. He wants to bring us to the certainty of his teachings slowly and our mentality in an acceptable way. However, we must not stand with our hands folded. Jesus wants us to try to learn about his teachings, that is, to move forward in a theory of faith and to slowly put his teachings into practice. This obliges parents to allow their children to become more familiar with the teachings of Jesus Christ in religion lessons, where the theory is taught so that they can see this theory in practice as an example in the family and other church societies.

These are the words of James the Apostle. “Faith without works is dead” (James 2:17). Or the terms of the Lord Jesus: “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but only he that doeth the will of my Father …” (Mt 7:21).

We are not wrong to say that no one and never any company or person has been able to give as much certainty and certainty as Jesus Christ.