In today's first reading, Romans 5: 12, 15b, 17-19, 20b-21, St. Paul reminds us that, just as sin came into the world through the disobedience of Adam and Eve, so, too, did righteousness come into the world through Jesus, the Incarnate Son of God, who was obedient to the Father even unto death. Psalm 40, speaking of Jesus, says: "Sacrifice or oblation you wished not, but ears open to obedience you gave me. Burnt offerings you sought not; then said I, 'Behold I come.' In the written scroll it is prescribed for me, to do your will, O my God, is my delight."
You and I are made righteous through the death and resurrection of Jesus. Because of Jesus' obedience to His Father, and ours, grace overflows into our lives, as Paul also proclaims: "Where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more, so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through justification for eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." When you and I admit our sinfulness and acknowledge our neediness of God's overflowing graces, and when we submit our will to the will of God, those graces are poured out upon us in an abundance that only God is capable of bestowing upon us. May God's generosity lead us to say, with the author of Psalm 40: "The Lord be glorified." And may that glorification of God become a reality by our words and deeds in the everydayness of our lives!
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