Now among those who went up to worship at the festival were some Greeks. They came to Philip... and said to him, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.”
John 12:20-21
The Greeks were not the only people who needed to see Jesus, there were many others. Believing for most of us would be so much easier if we could witness the presence of Jesus as those who saw Him that day at the festival. The need to have real evidence in the here and now is part of our twenty-first century culture, maybe even more than in Jesus' life time.
When my children started learning about Jesus in Sunday school and the books read to them at home, I worried that they were not as interested in those stories as they were in the Winnie the Pooh books. My concern continued through college and into their married lives. As it turned out, I was the one of little faith like those in Jesus' time who insisted upon seeing and hearing Jesus in order to believe.
It was the community of St. James' and our family that taught them about God's love. Now both daughters are teaching others what they learned and believe.
Nancy McClunin
