Monday, April 13, 2015

God's Design Unstoppable



In today’s first reading, Act 4: 23-31 Peter and John, having been reprimanded for speaking in Jesus’ name,  return to their own people and reported what the chief priests and elders had told them.  Everything done to stop the spread of Christianity and the work of the Spirit failed. Those against Jesus would not prevail then or now, any more than Pharaoh and the Egyptians thwarted God’s  plan to free the Israelites from slavery.  In our day, no one will stop God’s plan to save us from the forces that rise up against Truth, against Christ and His presence in the world. The Holy Spirit cannot be contained  or silenced by humans. 

In today’s opening Scripture reading, Luke quotes the words of King David, God’s servant, “Why did the Gentiles rage and the peoples entertain folly? The kings of the earth took their stand and the princes gathered together against the Lord and against his anointed….Indeed they gathered in this city (Jerusalem) against your holy servant Jesus whom you anointed, Herod and Pontius Pilate, together with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do what your hand and your will had long ago planned to take place.”  As then, so, now, persons  who gather  to voice their opinions against God’s servants, against those doing good in the world, those standing up for the poor and oppressed, those seeking justice and right relationships will, inadvertently, be helping to forward God’s plan of salvation. 

I have a choice to be a “Peter or a John,” a” Mary Magdalen or a Veronica,” actively and knowingly witnessing to the Risen Christ by word or deed or one of those who rant, rage or entertain folly in the world of today. What choice will I make today?

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