WE ARE NOT ABANDONED
Our heavenly Father always loved His children…
In today's
Responsorial Psalm we acclaim: The Lord made known His salvation (Ps 98.) 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 the first
Reading of St. Paul first letter to the Romans: Paul knows 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, is nothing new. What is new is its dramatic expression in a living human
being who shared our life, by suffering, dying and rising to new life. Our
heavenly Father didn't just begin to love human beings when Jesus was born. He
always loved His children for the creation of the human race was an act of
love.
Points to Pray and Ponder: 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 really changed the message; it has always been that He loves us and
wills what is best for us. We are not abandoned.