Nothing is Impossible with God

In today's first reading, Zachariah  8: 1-8, a small remnant of the Chosen People, those who survived the Babylonian exile, will be returning to Jerusalem, their sacred city that is now in shambles, completely ruined. Israel, a once world power, has been reduced to a small remnant of people.  Through the prophet Zachariah, God says to them:  I will return to Zion, and I will dwell within Jerusalem. Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city [God allowed the Israelites to be conquered by other nations whenever they abandoned the covenant]...God also promises, through the prophet Zachariah, that  the elderly, once again, shall "sit in the streets of Jerusalem and  that this city shall again "be filled with boys and girls playing in its streets." God says to the people: "Even if this should seem impossible in the eyes of the remnant of the people, shall it in those days be impossible in my eyes also...?"

God is a warrior who goes to battle for us to rescue us from those places where we have been exiled or exiled ourselves from the Truth. No matter how far away from the Lord you and I may have drifted, no matter how unfaithful we may have been, God is always faithful to His covenant to be our God, our Savior, our Helper in need.  He says to us,  as He said to the remnant of His Chosen People, "Lo, I will rescue my people from the land of the rising sun, and from the land of the setting sun. I will bring them back to dwell within Jerusalem. They shall be my people, and I will be their God, with faithfulness and justice."

We are on our way to the New Jerusalem, our Eternal City, where justice and peace and love prevail, where there will be no more tears, no more war, no more devastation, a place where all will live in harmony with God, others and self.  This Victory, already won on the Cross by Jesus' obedience to the Father unto death, will be our victory as well, through Christ Jesus. The Victory begins here in our everyday life when we embrace God's holy will for us and for others, when we act in accordance with God's holy Will, when we seek God above all else and put God at the center of our lives, or more correctly, accept the fact that God already exists in the center of our very being, in our deepest core self, that is, our  God-self or our True Self.

This is my belief? What is yours?