Breaking the Word

GOSPEL READING: JOHN 6:35-40

Jesus’ firm conviction and his activities confirm to the fact that God was behind his every move. He has not come on his own. He had not planned to come on to this earth and he had no personal mission. He did not choose to be on this earth to fulfill his personal ambition, desire etc.

He came to do the will of the father. Father sent him on to this earth and the Father had a plan for him and a mission for him. Jesus was fully convinced of this and he was faithful to this to the very end. Even those who come to him were not chosen by him rather they were sent by the Father to him. Jesus was completely and totally immersed in the will of the Father.

இயேசுவின் ஆழ்ந்த நம்பிக்கை தந்தையாகிய இறைவன் தன்னோடு இருக்கிறார் என்பதுதான். தந்தையாகிய இறைவன்தான் தன்னை இவ்வுலகிற்கு அனுப்பினார் என்றும்@ தந்தையாகிய இறைவன்தான் தனக்கு ஒரு பணியை கொடுத்தார் என்றும்@ தந்தையாகிய இறைவனின் சித்தத்தை நிறைவு செய்வதுதான் தனது வாழ்வு என்றும்@ தன்விருப்பப்படி செயல்பட இவ்வுலகிற்கு வரவில்லை என்றும் நன்கு அறிந்திருந்தார்.

GOSPEL READING: JOHN 6:30-35

Though they saw Jesus performing miracles yet they did not accept them as signs. They were asking for more signs and their understandings of signs were mere external performances and they did not want anything to be done with heavenly realities. That is why they argued saying that their ancestors ate manna in the desert. It was Moses and the bread they ate.

Jesus was telling his listeners that even Moses was only an instrument in the hands of God and it was God who was giving bread to the ancestors. Moses and the bread were only signs of God’s providence in the wilderness. Signs should lead people to God and see God present in the realities of the world.

மக்கள் வெறும் செயல்களைக் காண்கிறார்கள். அவைகளை அடையாளங்களாக காண்பதில்லை. மோசே வானிலிருந்து அவர்களுக்கு உணவு அருளினார் என்று எண்ணிக்கொண்டிருந்தார்கள். மோசேவும் உணவும்கூட அடையாளங்கள்தான். எல்லாமே கடவுளை சுட்டிக்காட்டும் அடையாளங்கள்.