“Who do you say that I am?” asked Jesus. Peter came up with the right answer. “You are the Messiah.” But even though he has the right answer that Jesus reprimands him: “You are thinking not as God does, but as human beings do.” He did not understand the underlying truth of the answer. That is our story as well. If we remain content at spitting back the catechsim answer without warming it in our own hearts we are thinking as human beings do. To describe God as the Trinity is correct but doesn’t mean much until we have relationships which reflect the unity and community which are the divine nature. The correct answer to understand the person of Jesus is that he is both God and human but until we recognize the divinity in every person particularly those are “other” than I am we really don’t understand what incarnation means. Yes, “Jesus is Lord” is correct but until we are doing for the least — the hungry, the homeless, the sick, the imprisoned — we really don’t get the Lordship of Jesus.
