2 Now John, in prison, had heard of the works of Christ. And he sent word by his disciples 3 Art thou he that should come or do we look for another? 4 Jesus answered them: Go and tell John what you hear and see: 5 The blind receive sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise and the good news preached to the poor.
By JB Tiepolo
irresistibly We approach this Christmas season when the world, gives himself to hope. We hope time of night, that all the promises of the prophets will come true. Then the darkness that surrounds us seems thinner and that a guide star comes surely not strange travelers. They come to the front of the world's stage happily abandon fortune and power while night closes on forgetting their passage. Everything happens as if renouncing fame, fortune and prestige could be simply and naturally. While filling us with hope, this evocation of the passage of the Magi allows us to think that all things that we disagree in this world could be improved if we put a little goodwill. Our hearts are too hard are touched then, and our soul prepares for his God.
But do not burn steps. Reading this day we moved to cross the footsteps of John the Baptist invites us to share his anger against those who conduct their lives against the grain of what God wants.
The character of John the Baptist says is fascinating. We join him in prison where he raises fundamental questions of his life. He questioned Jesus and asked whether it was him who was coming to allow men to be closer to God. He wonders if he will meet his expectations and our expectations.
But what do we really? God expect of men who wait for him? They expect clear answers. They expect God out among others and promote life by allowing them a better life than what society holds. They expect God upsets their daily reality by putting before them a hope concrete. Since the days of John Baptist, we expect the same thing, but today's reality seems no more obvious than the reality of the past. However, Jean Baptist seemed sure of himself! 
He had felt the change coming from afar as hoped. He had found the ad in the speeches of the prophets of old, whose message was preserved in the Scriptures. He had given up everything for God to lend her voice to repeat their message of old who had retained its relevance. This message was that the crowds as they waited rushed en masse in the desert places to listen, as it is true that men like to be pushed around by the provocative lyrics. The eloquence of John the Baptist denounced their sins, displayed in public their forfeitures. She was accompanied at the same time acts of purification. Hope gtandissait.
Messiah could therefore come. Never had he not acknowledged in this man from his own family who had come to submerge him in the desert ? Since he began his career as a preacher like him, and he worked miracles.
Now John was expecting his death in jail without any proof that it came from God. Despite promises that reached him from outside, he remained trapped and forgotten. The tyrant was still in power and despite the fine words of Jesus nothing new happening really. The change announced was done in continuity. Suffice to say that there was no real change. There were individual conversions but the grip of the world by God was always not visible.
Since ancient times, the presence of God still does not seem visible. Jesus preached a gospel with words, according to many, are revolutionary, but nothing has changed. Like John, Jesus died a martyr! Nothing will change, however. resurrection proclaimed by so many believers seem to have changed great thing difference. Is there then something that we do not understand?
Whether looking crowds by going to the desert to be baptized? Hoping they change the behavior of God by engaging in acts of mass conversion? In fact, man can change God? Without doubt they all thought they could put pressure on God through their acts of repentance that God decides to change society. They hoped that God would do the job for them!
John in prison must have thought his life was a failure and that his faith in Jesus was a decoy! It is also still believe that today, those who rank among philosophers and Jesus that make him a sage inspired by refusing to believe it is as a witness of God which he spoke and he acted. That is why Jesus said that John was the greatest of the prophets. John had seen that it is the heart of men who would become if they wanted to see change take place on God's side, because it is God that men must draw the noble ideas that will help them change the world. These ideas they find in the words of Jesus. The ability to achieve them given by the Spirit of God that keeps blowing each of us.
ago in the heart of every human capital of generosity that asks express themselves and be valued. But this business can be successful only if God is the guarantor. While men try to change things without trying to be guided by God, turn their business to fail. Jesus' answer to John the Baptist confirms this intuition. He said in essence that is the voice of God that he heard through the prophets and it is God who guided him to act as he did. But it is not God who took him in prison is the hard law of man, and if he dies it will not God's plan. But in no way his business has been a failure.
Each generation of youth has it not acted as Jean Baptiste? Every era has seen the rise of young people to ideas generous, willing to change the world. They have always loved to dress differently from people who around them, so for them the clothing of camel's hair Jean became the leather jacket or shirt with flowers. Their food itself was different from that of their parents as honey and grasshoppers were for the I 
year which became their predecessor on the path of protest and generosity.
Their vehement protests were consistent with John. Then disappointed with the lack of following in their case they lock themselves in their own prison good society they join wondering why their ideas have not made better off. The question they should and they have yet ask is the same as that of John. Where was God in their business?
To all those who dream of changing the world, Jesus brings a response that reject much. Change begins with changing oneself by descent our strong inside to meet with God who will no doubt place our pride, our selfishness, not re lack of love.
This questioning of ourselves invariably leads us to discover God in another aspect. His love changes our view of things and if our noble ideas are not implemented, they are not necessarily a sign of failure. This is the effect of hardness of heart of people among whom God is asking us to make the contradiction is the basis on which he builds his Kingdom. This we must do now with self denial Instrument and love for others as raw material. 
This confirms the great hope gushing tales of Christmas. Join the mages that we talked about starting this. The story of their adventure, which has survived largely legendary. It was forged by generations of believers whose Gospel of Matthew has retained a small part. It has made them kings, who have abandoned their wealth to leave very happy, relieved of their power, to another destiny. God has guided men in the night by a star that is still being sought. This same star that will lead us all to abandon himself to his fate build and build with God's kingdom comes.
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