+ The Christmas Season has come and gone, and now we summarize in one
thought what has happened: an amazingly
“wondrous exchange” has occurred: the Word of God (existing forever with God)
takes on our sinful nature, so that he can redeem us and make us divine and
sharers in his life forever! We could spend the rest of our lives
meditating on that one sentence!
On
this second Sunday in Ordinary Time, as this story of wondrous
exchange unfolds from the beginning, we place our focus on John the Baptist as
seen in the gospel passage today. Because God formed John the Baptist “as his
servant from the womb,” John’s whole being is ordered to God.
Thus when John “saw Jesus
coming toward him,” he instantly cried out, “Behold, the Lamb of God.” John
immediately recognizes that Christ is the one for whom he heart has been made.
That immediate correspondence between what he has been waiting for all his life
and what he beholds in the Lamb of God lead him to “testify that he is the Son
of God.”
The miracle is that the same
grace has been given to us. We are the ones who “have been called to be holy
with all those who call upon the name of the Lord.”
By professing the One “who
takes away the sin of the world,” we become a light to the nations, through
whom God’s salvation reaches to the ends of the earth.
As we glorify the Lamb of God,
God show his glory through us, and this is vital and essential in the day and
age in which we find ourselves, in which so many who are “driving the
civilization bus” have lost sight of the road on which they are leading us all
down – it seems to be night-time, more and more – and the vehicle needs
headlights: and those headlights needs be us!
Here
we are Lord, we come to do your will.
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