Thursday, Jan 2, 2025
1 Jn 2:22-28; Jn 1:19-28
Today’s Gospel highlights the humble testimony of John.
We are impressed by the utter frankness with which John reveals his identity to those priests and Levites who approach him raising the identity question.
What we must observe is that those representatives would have readily believed if John ever claimed he was the Messiah.
Such was John’s credibility and popularity among people.
But John is content with his original identity as the forerunner of the Messiah and his messenger.
In accepting who he is as ‘the voice of one crying out in the desert,’ there is neither insecurity in him nor does he suffer from any trace of humiliation.
With no identity confusion, John defers to the authority of Jesus.
Living out the virtue of humility, John helps us understand that humble people manifest a healthy understanding of themselves and do not confuse between what they are and what they aren’t.
Let us pray that we may be inspired by the exemplary testimony of John to practice humility.
Fr. Dhinakaran Savariyar
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