WE ARE NOT ABANDONED
What is revealed to the world
in Jesus is, in one sense, nothing new... Our Father has never changed the message;
it has always been that He loves us and wills what is best for us.
In today's Responsorial Psalm we acclaim,
"The Lord has made known His salvation" (Ps 98:2a). God has done
wondrous deeds! Through the gift of the Holy Spirit He pours His love into our
hearts that we may understand His will for our lives and walk in His way. For
He will never abandon us!
In St. Paul's first Letter to the Romans, Paul
knows that his mission is to announce the Gospel message promised long ago
through the prophets and realized in Jesus Christ. What is revealed to the
world in Jesus is, in one sense, nothing new. What is new is the dramatic
expression of a living, human being, who shared our life by suffering, dying
and rising to new life. It is nothing new insofar as our heavenly Father didn't
first begin to love human beings when Jesus was born. He has always loved His
children and all of creation. The refrain in the first chapter of Genesis, is
that God looked on everything in creation and saw that it was good. Our Father
has never changed the message; it has always been that He loves us and wills
what is best for us.
We are not abandoned