+ As we progress more rapidly now in our Lenten
observance today we pick up the theme of an increased sense of joy in the
readings: the joy that comes from belief, the joy that comes from letting God
have his way, the way of saving us. If we ever think that God’s ways would be
unacceptable or irksome to us we are sadly mistaken, because all God wants is
our happiness and our salvation: our qualification to spend eternity with him
in a grand and glorious place.
And so Isaiah speaks of the new heavens and the new earth that
God wills to make for his people; and the gospel passage shows how health and
well-being will be a part of that creation: and that the entrance key to this
magnificent reality is simply faith, belief, trust and consequent loving deeds
done to others!
Let us
seek what is true, beautiful and good always and not the opposite, so that we
may live bountifully and have the Lord always with us!
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