+ Our gospel passage today sums it all up, doesn’t it – LOVE. It’s
all about love, isn’t it? It always has been, and always will be. Some scribes
come up to Jesus and try to play a game with him: “So, which of all of the
hundred commandments of Moses is number one, which comes first!”
And Jesus, immediately quotes
the top choice: which really is the top choice: Hear, O Israel! The lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord
your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with
all your strength.” and the second is just like it: in fact it is directly
hooked up and connected with it: “You
shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
That’s it! and it’s “love,
actually.” But, not Hollywood love, but a real “Love Story” that actually
boggles the mind, in fact, so much, that many people these days don’t even want
to hear about it anymore: GOD LOVING CREATION AND PEOPLE INTO EXISTENCE and
then REDEEMING THEM when the flunked a test he gave them to determine if they
would FREELY love him in return for all his blessings on them.
Yes, loving God FRIST is it! and
since the GOD OF LOVE is intimately bound up with all of creation, especially
people, he’s present there – we can’t say that we love God, if we don’t love
everything that we see, especially people who are journeying with us back to
the Father’s house in the heavenly kingdom.
Meaning: we are at home in
creation that we will encounter today, we are at home with all the people we
will encounter, we are at home with ourselves, therefore, let’s all try really
hard to believe these realities and live like we believe in them: LOVING AS
CHRIST LOVED US! because Jesus IS GOD’S LOVE in the FLESH!
The first reading exhorts us
not to deny him and these teachings, especially about the New Law of Love - which
absolutely comes first: because if we do, he will deny us FOREVER – and we just
would not want to the see the consequences of that! we just wouldn’t!
“Your
ways, O Lord, make known to me; teach me your paths, Guide me in your truth and
teach me, for you are God our Lover and our Savior!”
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