+ Today we have two interesting readings at mass. From
the Prophet Jeremiah we read that God is so willing to work and rework and yet
work again the “teenaged, rebellious” House of Israel – which keeps falling out
of shape by its own willful acts of mistrust and disobedience to “Abba, the
Potter” who is trying to fashion us into a magnificent vessel of joy, hope and
peace for all the world to be guided by!
Why
did they do that? we might ask ourselves? Can’t they see how, if they just completely surrendered their beings to
God voluntarily, he would do unimagined things for them for the good of others
and themselves?
My dear friends, perhaps we
must ask the same question of ourselves – who are spiritually descendant of the
House of Israel: why do we do what we do
that “rejects the potter’s skillful hands”? why can we see that surrender is
the name of the game, and that our lives for the good of others can be an
amazing daily adventure – if we just take the risk and find the benefits of
being overshadowed by our Lord, Redeemer, and Friend: Jesus of Nazareth!
The gospel passage relates
that the saint and the sinner, the good, the bad, the liar and the truth-teller
will exist until the Final Trumpet: but that all will be sorted out by the
angels at that time – and the good will
inherit the Kingdom prepared for them from all eternity, and the bad will get
what has been prepared for them as well!
God loves us beyond all
telling, Jesus proved it by voluntarily dying an unspeakable death on a Cross
for us, and the Spirit is their Love, Forgiveness and Healing sent as Free Gift
to any who want it? for any who simply believe that it can be so?
Do we still want it today? Do
we still believe? The choice is ours? it is always ours! what do you say?
Happy
are they who are helped by Jacob’s God – especially the rebellious teenager
that still lurks in all of us!
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