Faith is only possible if God is a strong point on which we can rely. But if we are completely honest, we will acknowledge that most of us have a problem with that (even if we say no). God is often incomprehensible to us. Sometimes it seems we understand his ways, perceive his closeness, but other times this is not the case. Sometimes he hears us right away, but other times he seems distant to us, and we don't even know why.

It may be encouraging that the disciples experienced exactly the same. Jesus seldom behaved as they expected, quite the opposite. It bothered and often offended them. If they had not learned the lesson of humility in his school, they would have certainly left him, he would have been unacceptable to them. At first the path of the pursuit seems to us to be "a straight one" (Pr 14,12); but later we only find out how wrong we have been in many of our judgments. The more a person knows God - and this is a lifelong process - the more he can trust him because he understands him and so he knows when and how he can rely on him. God no longer escapes us so easily.