In today’s Gospel, Jesus challenges the people saying, “unless you see signs you do not believe.”

Jesus wants us to believe without signs, but the reality is that we, in our weakness, often need signs to believe. 

Yesterday’s Gospel spoke of the man born blind whom Jesus cures.  Jesus says this miracle will be for you to see the work of God. Yet today He seems frustrated as He says, “unless you see signs you do not believe.” Jesus wants us to come along farther in our faith and believe without signs. He desires this because seeing the signs can almost make it like magic, or people just looking for signs and impossible things to happen.

He wants our Faith to be in Him not in ‘what He can do against logic or against nature.’ In order to reach out to us to believe in Him, Jesus does do miracles. He also does miracle for us because He loves us.

Jesus wants the biggest miracle of all for all people, salvation. The miracle of us rising into a new life of Glory is the best miracle of all. Miracles here are a glimpse of how much Jesus loves us and helps us on the road to salvation and heaven forever. The people living around Jesus saw the miracles or the signs. The rest of the world knows about them because they wrote them in the Bible. What about now? What about present day miracles? People often think they do not exist.

If only people know the signs all around us, it would be like the days of Jesus. The difference is this: the miracles are happening daily, but most people are not evangelizing them, telling them to the world. Some miracles are very private and do not want to be shared, and this understandable.

I am sure many people encountered Jesus and received a miracle and never shared it. We, those of us who have a strong belief in Jesus must be the continuation of the Scriptures and relate the signs and miracles to the world. I believe each person who believe has miracle in their lives. We must share them with others, when appropriate. Even more, we must share the public major miracles with the world, especially those who do not know Jesus well.

For example, there are people who do not know the miracles of Lourdes, or of Fatima, or of the Miraculous Medal, or of the Divine Mercy and how they touch people worldwide and are recorded. Most people do not know about the Eucharistic Miracles when the Bread and Wine have turned into Jesus body and Blood right on the altar for all to see and have been tested scientifically. We have a Eucharist Miracle not long ago, in Buenos Aries, Argentina in 1994.

Most people know nothing about it. Are we spreading the news that Jesus is among us, working miracles and signs among us?  Make a list of miracles in your life and keep them close to you. If you truly sit for a few minutes in silent prayer and meditation, you will remember them.

Times when God intervened and there was a cure, or a situation was healed, or relationships were healed. There might even be other examples in your own life. Share these when you feel it is ok, but no matter what, share the public miracles around the world to all people and help others to believe fully.