Friday, May 16, 2014

Realizing the Gift of Salvation


Imagine the emotions of those Jewish people who had come to realize that the man that was put to death “by the inhabitants of Jerusalem and their leaders was, in fact, the fulfillment  promised to them  in all of their Scriptures, as we read in today's first reading, Acts 13: 26-33. “God,” they testify to fellow Jews, “ raised him from the dead, and for many days he appeared to those who had come up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem….We ourselves are [now]proclaiming the good news to you that what God promised our fathers he has brought to fulfillment for us, their children, by raising up Jesus, as it is written in the second psalm, You are my Son; this day I have begotten you.”  They realized that for decades they had been blinded and deaf to the Truth. 
Think of a time when you suddenly realized that you were believing the wrong thing, were listening to the wrong people, and all of a sudden came to the Truth that set you free from years of enslavement, misery, hopelessness, and faithlessness.

Yes, you and I, the redeemed, have been set free and  given life by God shedding the blood of His only begotten Son, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. In Him and through Him and with Him, all honor and all glory and all power belong. You and I participate in all that is divine because of this incredible act of love on God’s part.  The power of God, the honor of God, the glory of God, the goodness of God, the greatness of God, the holiness of God, the Wisdom of God—God’s very essence dwells and grows --within us through the redemptive act of love that we celebrate in Jesus’ life and death and resurrection. Alleluia!

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