Filial Trust

Filial Trust

“Destroy this sanctuary, and in 3 days I will raise it up….  But he was speaking of the sanctuary that was his body, and when Jesus rose from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this, and they believed the scripture and the words he had said.”  (John 2: 19 – 22)

Jesus knew his future intimately.  He predicted what was going to happen to him.  Jesus was in control of his destiny.  He was providence himself.  Here he said that he would allow his body to be destroyed but in three days time, he would raise it up again.  It was after his resurrection that his disciples remembered this prediction and believed the scripture and the words of Jesus.  

In the Book of Isaiah, God challenged the false prophets thus:  Can they prove that they are gods by predicting the future and explaining the past?  Of course they could not.  They were objects made by human hands.  They have mouth but speak not.

Jesus knows us intimately.  He knows our past and our future.  He is our providence and our destiny is in his hands.  “Christ invites us to filial trust in the providence of our heavenly Father (Matthew 6: 26 – 34), and St. Peter the apostle repeats: ‘Cast all your anxieties on him, for he cares about “(1 Peter 5:7; cf. Ps 55:23) – CCC #322.