Saturday, April 4, 2020

"They will be my people and I will be their God" (Compare Ezekiel 37: 21-28)

In today's first reading, Ezekiel 37: 21-28, God says that He "will take the Israelites back...."  They shall  no longer "defile themselves with their idols, their abominations, and all their transgressions. I will deliver them from all their sins of apostasy, and cleanse them so that they may be my people and I may be their God."  Is that what God is doing through the coronavirus? Is he using this disease to turn us away from our "sins of apostasy," and to cleanse us so that we may be His people and God may be our God forever, and not the idols to which we have come--the accumulation of more and more material things, the multiplication of hedonistic, pleasurable experiences; wealth and the becoming of millionaires and billionaires, dominating and controlling others, being superior to others?

All of us are vulnerable to the coronavirus. No one is exempt. And to overcome this virus, we need to work together as one nation, one people,  one world!  All survive in cooperation with one another or no one survives.  We are called to turn away from the sins of exclusion, domination, control, one person being superior to another, lording it over others and all the sins associating with these behaviors!  God is God. There is no other God but God! May this virus cause us to fall down on our knees to the one true God and beg forgiveness and deliverance from this evil and the evil of of worshiping our egos and not doing what is best for each other in love!

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