As an instructor it is easy to discern which students understand, which struggle, and which are tuned out. Motivations can also easily be ascertained. In today's readings Jesus looks at his disciples. He knows which of them are faithful and which will betray him. That had to be so difficult to persevere just for the sake of those who were faithful, simply because it was the right thing to do.
Sometimes we forget about Jesus' humanity and think of him as this great redeemer who came down from heaven. He was fully human like the rest of us and divine. In his humanity he felt sadness, despair, loneliness and so on. How hard it must have been to face Judas knowing what would happen, always hoping that maybe he would change deep within his heart as was in his free will.
Christ came to be in the world to save the world. As Peter reminds us, Christ Jesus had the words of eternal life. Are we open to the Father calling us closer to him in the salvation mystery? Will we follow Christ?
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