Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Mar 13 - 1st Week of Lent - Wednesday


+ Our readings today on this Lenten Wednesday are about the power of words, words of warning, words of admonition, words of Truth, with a capital “T.” Despite the fallen conclusion and notion that “reality is what I think it is, my truth is all there is, everything is illusion” is a very risky position to take, risky as it pertains to our eternal salvation and placement.



God’s intent, purpose and law are irrevocable, (which means they will operate as he created them to), these are the immovable, impenetrable, and immediate Truths of Faith, Science, Art, Beauty, Goodness, Justice and LOVE! These all operate not as we “think” they do, they operate as they really are. And the greatest of these is LOVE!



The arrogant and self-adoring, ungodly words and ways of the Ninevites, in both readings today prompted God to send the Prophet (spokesman on his behalf) Jonah to parade through the streets of this enormously large city and by the sheer power of his “right on target” the target of the heart, words of preaching, moved the hearts and minds of his hearers, including the King – and they were afraid, afraid of the wrath of God, afraid of the just punishment for their abandoning the true dictates of their hearts and souls, afraid of eternal wrath and judgment of God – and the “changed their course,” changed their minds, changed their hearts and repented, both externally by actions of rending their garments and sitting in ashes – and internally by turning wholeheartedly to the God they knew was faithful in his love, faithful in his promises, faithful in the care.



The world today makes Nineveh look like a “saintly city” – the arrogance, the nerve, the deceptive attitudes, the cutting every corner there is to be cut to the maximum, the selfish, self-centered, self-aggrandizing spirit in the air is putrid, stifling and suffocating – and these evils have even spread to the hierarchs who govern us in the Church – and unless a new Jonah stands up and pronounces loudly and clearly the just revenge, justice and punishment of God for willfully choosing the creature over the Creator – one day hell will be paid – and this is a fact, and this is a choice – to be made – do I and my family and friends wake up, and smell the fires of Haedesl, and do something about it – TURN WHOLEHEARTLY, TRUSTINGLY and OBEDIENTLY to God – or not?



It seems like the end of earthly road as we know it is fast approaching – can you afford not to believe this; can you afford not to know this!?



Let this day of Lent be a day of deep self-reflection, self-assessment, and self-reorientation. Why because God does not desire the death of the sinner – but that he/she returns, rejoices and be filled with his JOY!



Amen.


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