Thursday. 8/24/17
Today we honor the Apostle Nathaniel, who was also known as
Bartholomew, because he was the son of Tolmeus. (Peter was identified as Simon,
and as Simon Barjona, son of Jona.)
Jesus identified Nathaniel as a man with no duplicity. We
will come back to that, but first, let's look into Nathaniel's amazement over
Jesus saying he saw him under the fig tree.
What amazed Nathaniel there was his certainty that only God
could have seen him when he was alone under the fig tree. That brought
Nathaniel to say, "You are the Son of God."
Coming back to Jesus saying that Nathaniel had no duplicity
in him, Jesus was saying that Nathaniel was a hundred percent honest with
himself.
So, two things we should take away from this story are first,
that we should strive to experience being alone with God; and secondly that we
should be completely honest with ourselves, putting aside both all animosity
towards others, and suppressing all inflated motions of our own worth
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