Every one of us who lives in relationship with others has asked ourselves at one point or another: Who is this person? This question arises in our hearts every time that we must define the relationship that exists between us and another person.
In the case of Jesus, he put this question to his disciples, as a test to see how mature the relationship he had cultivated with each one of them was becoming. In his question: Who do you say that I am? (Mk 8:29) we hear words that call his hearers to a level of truth that perhaps they had never entertained before. These words call us too to an honest evaluation of the relationship that we have cultivated with Jesus.
Even Peter, who answered the question with the words that became the most simple but honest expression of faith was yet to have his faith tested. Belief in God is always accompanied by some level of testing: this is the way that we authenticate its presence. So it is that Jesus began to teach the disciples that the Son of Man was to suffer greatly and be rejected ... (Mk 8:31). This the key that differentiates Jesus from every other king.
Who do we say that Jesus is for us? Are we able to see his greatness in the faces of those who suffer, or are we still looking for him in some other place?
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