In our weekday celebration between Christmas and Epiphany today we hear right away about the reason why the Word became flesh at all: this being sin! Jesus, the Word made flesh, came to reconcile the great Original Sin and all personal sins of mankind, so that we might be free once again - free to love God, free to obey God, free to serve him and live with him forever in heaven.
St. John the Baptist, in the gospel passage, is moved by the Holy Spirit to say: “Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world,” when he sees Jesus walking toward him, when he came to officially inaugurate his public ministry. Indeed that is why Jesus came, to be the Lamb that would save the lambs of God - that would save us!
In the first reading from St. John we see that those who are baptized in Christ - are really and truly adopted sons and daughters of God. They live in utter and true communion with God. There is no trace of - what is not of God - sin - in them. How could it be otherwise? How can God and sin abide in the same place? St. John urges us to remain sin free - so that God can completely fill us, and we can live completely in God as his beloved children - for now - as we wait for the grand transformation that is coming and we begin to exist in a way that no one can even imagine! All we do know is that it will be marvelous beyond all our hopes and dreams!
All the ends of the earth have seen the saving power of God! It is up to us this day to manifest and proclaim this power of God right here, right now and to all whom God places in our day! Strengthened by the Eucharist we eat - which is communion with God extraordinaire, we can do this: as we should do everything: to the glory of God the Father!
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