+ Today our readings can speak both of the first and second
comings of the Lord! When
he came the first time, so long ago, he
came as Lord of the earth and he took upon himself the yoke of our captivity:
he took upon himself our slavery to sin and its sentence of death, and
transformed it into grace and life, life forever in a kingdom that is not of
this shadowy world.
The first reading from Isaiah
tells of that first coming when God
himself will come to save his people, but it also prophesys the final
coming of the King of Kings when all of
heaven and earth will be restored to their former glory – and there shall
be a land of justice and peace, a land of wellness and celebration!
Our task today is to hang on
to that hope, to hang on to that promise that our God will come to save us; and
we shall be saved, and he will at last and for all times take away the yoke of all the captivity that holds us down!
The gospel passage tells of
how God wants to manifest his desire to save us by going to the heart of the
matter: our hearts and our bodies, which transports our hearts around for us
all day long: where sin abounds oftentimes in our spiritual hearts, God wants
to bring about reconciliation and peace (through the birth, life, death and
resurrection of his Son – his Word), he also secondarily though simultaneously
wants to keep our bodies as fit as they can be (with our cooperation) and heal
and restore them when they get bruised and broken.
This is our HOPE and our PEACE
that God wants to make us into the best version and image of ourselves: the
version and image that he always had in mind.
Let us stay poised, then, at
each hour of the day, to see incredible
things done in us and for us – for we are God’s beloved children!
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