When someone says to you: I’ll tell you later……it’s usually because the time just isn’t right or the circumstances. But it does succeed in sparking our curiosity and wondering what it is the person has to tell us that has to wait for another time. Sometimes it turns out to be nothing really important and sometimes it really is something worth waiting for.
    And doesn’t that seem to be what Jesus is doing in today’s gospel reading: I have more to tell you, he says, but you cannot hear it right now! Imagine how their curiosity is sparked by those few words as He is saying goodbye to them before his crucifixion on the night before? Not only are they confused by all that is happening already, but there is yet more to come? What else is on the way?
    Well I think Jesus knew if they were aware of everything that was to happen to him they might have scattered out of fear and desperation. He wanted them to have the whole picture and then he would send them His Holy Spirit to make sense of it all. And we know that is exactly what happened.
    This simple interchange reminds us how well God knows each of us. He didn’t want to thrust too much upon the apostles. If they were overwhelmed it would defeat the purpose of their role as apostles and they never would have gone forth and preached the gospel message.
    Today we celebrate the great mystery of the Holy Trinity – a mystery that overwhelms us if we try to understand and explain it all. Three persons in one God. Simply put. God relates to us in three different ways” as a loving Father, as a human son like us in all things, and as an abiding, guiding Spirt. How that happens isn’t for us to understand but rather for us to reap the benefits of a God who knows what we need and what we don’t need and provides for us along the way.
    Yes God has much more to tell us, but He reveals Himself to us in the increments we can absorb and gradually leads us to the fullness of His loving gift of redemption.