Monday, September 15, 2014

God's Abounding Love

"God so loved the world that He gave His only Son so that everyone who believes in Him will not be lost but will have eternal life" (Jn 3:16).  Paul tells us in Galatians 4: 4-5 that "[w]hen the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as children." God knows that people would use the law to justify their condemnation of others. God also knew jealous rage would lead to His son's death, and yet, out of love for us, to save us from death,  He sent His only begotten Son to become a human being. That Jesus would end up a victim of humanity's cruelty to another human being, the cruelty we have recently seen carried out by ISIS, was inevitable. Sin is vicious. Evil is a powerful force in our world, But God's love for the world is infinite and He would go to any extreme to save us. God Himself would walk the talk. He would experience everything about being human, including our suffering, our heartaches, our fears--"My soul is sorrowful unto death," He says to the three apostles whom He took with Him into the Garden of Gethsemane. "Stay awake" with Me, He begs. They don't. In fact when their lives, too, were in danger, they fled the scene!   His only Son went through what the journalists and so many other other human beings have gone through when tortured, imprisoned and ultimately executed. God, too, in Jesus' humanity, likewise suffered at the hands of evil men and women. Truly, God walks the talk with us.

And Mary, stood with Jesus beneath the cross. She stands with each one of us beneath our crosses too and leads us into eternal life with her Son Jesus, where there will be no more tears, no more sufferings, no more evil.

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