+ The first reading today tells
us very plainly, very simply, what God expects of us: to do the right thing and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with
God. This may sound simple but it is a very difficult thing to do given our
propensity to interpret for ourselves what is good and right, and to make gods
of ourselves. However, when we go that rebellious route, and it is a rebellious
route, God does and has every right to correct us, bring us up short and
redirect our steps. It is at that point that we can choose to be even more
rebellious or to surrender to his ever-loving designs and plans for us. Our
free-wills have been given us so that we might cooperate and not dominate; to
love freely and not with subjugation. May we use them as such!
The gospel passage
coincidentally tells of those who use their free-wills incorrectly, end up lost
and are searching high and low for “signs” of God’s favor, signposts along a
way that leads to prosperity. Jesus says the
only sign you will have is the sign prophesied by Jonah being swallowed by the
whale, which indicates my being “swallowed up in death and laid in a tomb”
– a dastardly act that is coming – but which is the greatest sign of all
because I will overcome even death itself – for I am the way (the path), the
truth and the life that you are all searching for and seeking signs about!
I invite you, then, to spend your time actually looking at me, listening to me, and
following me – and you will have all
the signs you want (especially the greatest sign of them all: the Blessed
Eucharist of my Body and Blood that you will share in each Mass): and then
BELIEVE; simply believe in me to be the Divine Son of God, and you will share
in a prosperous and useful life here on earth and then the peaceful eternal
life of the Kingdom prepared for you!
To the
upright I will show the saving power of God!
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