Thursday April 23, 2026

John 6:44-51

Jesus said to the crowd:

‘No one can come to me

unless he is drawn by the Father who sent me,

and I will raise him up at the last day.

I have always thought that we are the seekers. We go out and search for God like hunters search for their prey. In fact I have been told by people who speak the original language that the word ‘prayer’ itself in Jewish Aramaic simply meant ‘to set a trap.’ So when the disciples went to the Lord to ask him that he may teach them to pray they actually said “Lord teach us how to set a trap as John taught his disciples how to set a trap for God.’ There is something to be said about this attitude, this orientation. We seek to catch this wild unpredictable Spirit. Our souls are designed like a trap to catch God.

Our Lord however says in today’s passage that it is God who searches for us and draws us to his Son. Yes we love God but God’s love for us is beyond telling and this Wild, unpredictable Spirit will not stop looking for us until we all meet in Christ.

So yes set the trap for God, but also know that he first loved us and has been seeking us. Everything you are going through is leading you to Him.

Fr. Chibundi