+ As we progress more rapidly now in our Lenten observance, today we pick up the theme of an increased sense of joy in the readings: the joy that comes from belief, the joy that comes from letting God have his way, the way of saving us. If we ever think that God’s ways would be unacceptable or irksome to us we are sadly mistaken, because all God wants is our happiness and our salvation: our qualification to spend eternity with him in a grand and glorious place where we will have fun beyond our wildest imaginations.
And so Isaiah speaks of the new heavens and the new earth that
God wills to make for his people; and the gospel passage shows how health and
well-being will be a part of that creation: and that the entrance key to this
magnificent reality is simply faith, belief, trust and consequent loving deeds
done to others!
Let us
seek what is true, beautiful, and good always and not the opposite, so that we
may live bountifully and have the Lord always with us!
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