Christmas Weekday, Wednesday – 04th January 2023 — Gospel: John 1,35-42
Knowing When to Let Go
Today’s Gospel presents John the Baptist’s continuous role as witness or mediator of God’s word. His mission goes further, namely, to point out Jesus to people, to the extent that he can let go two of his disciples to become Jesus’ disciples. As he discreetly redirects two of his best disciples to follow Christ, his humility is in full play. Not only does he accept the fact that he must take the second stage to Jesus, he actively works for this to happen. John the Baptist was very happy when people left him to follow Jesus, because his ministry focused on Jesus, “He must increase, but I must decrease” (Jn 3,30). However, for an ordinary person it would be difficult to seek only God’s glory and the good of those around us, because humans as we are, our hearts easily attach themselves to people, to areas of responsibility and to the attention we may seek because of what we do. We find John the Baptist was well focused and faithful to his mission. He never knew the final results of his actions, but he trusted in the Holy Spirit and did what he felt God wanted. However, if we want to do God’s will, we have to know when it’s time for us to let go. Like John the Baptist, the only thing we should have our hearts set on is establishing Christ’s kingdom.
