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Mark
8:27-30
Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea
Philippi; and on the way he asked his disciples, ‘Who do people say that I
am?’ And they answered him, ‘John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and
still others, one of the prophets.’ He asked them, ‘But who do you say
that I am?’ Peter answered him, ‘You are the Messiah.’ And he sternly
ordered them not to tell anyone about him.
Expectation
The life of faith is one of expectation, holy
expectation. We expect something … make that someone to appear.
We lean into each day eager to see and know and feel God
… the Love God is … visible and knowable, so that our hearts might smile within
us, alive with the joy that carries us through to day’s end.
Jesus lived at a time of high expectation. Periodic
fevers ran through a land hungry for a Messiah, a God-ordained figure who would
bring deliverance, physical, political and spiritual.
I wonder how Peter came to the conclusion that Jesus
was the One. What did he see? What did he feel? What did he remember from the
Scripture that led him to the conclusion that Jesus was the Messiah?
For me … it is always the Love I see and know in him.
It is the wonder of a healing touch, the gentleness with the children and the
anger at all that mars and defaces the richness of human thriving. He loves
like God loves.
I wake each day expecting that somewhere, somehow, in
someone that Love will touch me.
It’s what faith does.
Pr.
David L. Miller
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