In today's first reading, Hosea 6: 1-6, the prophet invites us to return to the Lord, saying to us: "Come, let us return to the Lord, it is he who has rent, but he will heal us; he has struck us, but he will bind our wounds. He will revive us...he will raise us up, to live in his presence. Let us know, let us strive to know the Lord; as certain as the dawn is his coming, and his judgment shines forth like the light of the day! He will come to us like the rain, like spring rain that waters the earth."
TRUST IN THE LORD! The entire world has been struck with the coronavirus. "God's judgment shines forth like the light of the day," says the prophet Hosea! It is God, in the prophet's words, who, "will heal us," "bind up our wounds" once this virus has run its course! Repent and believe in the Scriptures! "As certain as the dawn" is God's presence in our midst. God, I believe, suffers with us and it is God who "will revive us,...raise us up, to live in his presence." That presence is already here! Let us keep our focus on Jesus, or, if we have turned away our focus to other gods, let us return our focus to the Lord, our God, to Jesus our Savior.
If everything looks dark to you, let us recall the first Good Friday. Everything could not have, in my opinion, looked darker to the disciples of the Lord. Their master was being executed in the public square, so to speak. The One to whom they looked to establish an earthly kingdom and rescue them from Roman occupation was being put to death. Yes, they had it wrong. Jesus was not about building an earthly kingdom. His kingdom was of God and existed with God in eternal life and He surrendered Himself to death to raise us up with Him in eternal life to be with Him forever in a Kingdom of justice and love and peace and joy forever. That is our destiny even now!
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