(Hebrews 1:1-6 / Mark 1:14-20)
I would like to engrave in our hearts and subconsciousnesses
a firm, unshakable and undaunted conviction concerning the love that God has
for you. As a matter of fact, it is God’s earnest desire that you understand
and appreciate the depth of His love for you. Many of us know John 3:16 by
heart and have somehow gotten used to the saying that God loves us perhaps even
to the extent that it no longer makes much import. So it will be well if you
use the opportunity that the first reading of today gives us to remind
ourselves of the extent of that love.
The Scripture says that in time past, God spoke to our
fathers in various and many ways through the prophets but that in our days, He
has spoken to us by His Son. You see clearly how much God desires to
communicate to us and to establish a relationship with us. He has attempted
various means in the past to achieve this. If it wasn’t through dreams and
visions as in the case of Abraham and Jacob, He would communicate through
oracles. But these means still seemed so inadequate to Him, that He thought to
Himself, “What if I went personally to communicate with these my lovely
creatures one-on-one as a father would chat with his son?” It was thus decided
and so did God come in the person of His divine Son to speak with us not
through intermediaries but personally. That way, at least, He hopes to convince
us of His love for us and win our love too.
If we ever love God, it is because He loved us first and if
we love God, we must express it in the love we show to every person even the
most undeserving of our love.
Have a nice day and God loves you.
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