DRAWING OUT THE IMPLICATIONS OF THE RESURRECTION.

09 April 2015, Wednesday within the Octave of Easter.

SCRIPTURE READINGS:  ACTS 3:11-26; LK 24:35-48.

Emmanuel Kant once says:  Percept without concept is blind.  Indeed, many of us have experiences in life but because we are not aware of them, these experiences are not revelatory of God’s love to us.  We are blind to the many ways that God wants to reveal Himself to us and ourselves to ourselves through these experiences.  Thus, it is important that we should never go through life without interpreting the experiences of our daily life. This was indeed the case for the early Christians.  The fundamental experience of the Christians of course is their encounter with the Risen Jesus. However, it was necessary for the early Christians to draw out the implications of this Jesus who had been crucified but is now seen to be alive.  And their conclusion at the end of their reflection is this: Jesus is the Messiah predestined to suffer, die and rise again; and He is our Saviour who takes away the sin of the world.  This is the earliest interpretation of Jesus after His resurrection.  But how did they come to confess in Jesus as the Messiah, the Saviour?