Hope in God!

 

1st February 2025

3rd Week Saturday of Ordinary Time

Year One

Meditation

Heb 11:1-2, 8-19

Hope in God!

Faith and hope in God lead us to love God. Abraham, the father of faith, hoped in God, and God loved him. God tested Abraham's love and faith by letting him go to an unknown land and sacrifice his son Isaac.  He went to an unknown land, but it was the promised land. He went to sacrifice his son, but God provided a ram in the bush to sacrifice instead of Isaac. God is trustworthy and loving God. God loves us immensely. We are unworthy of his love but cannot but love by his very nature.

Do we hope in God’s promises?

Year Two

2 Sam 12:1-7, 10-17

David sinned. Prophet Nathan makes David realize his sin with Uria. God says that he is going to bring calamity to the family. Son born of Uria dies. The Lord punishes and makes known his mistake to him. David says to Nathen that he has sinned against the Lord. David feels sorry and makes severe reparation, and the elders come to assist David. It is very important that in one’s sin and guilt, elders' role and guidance are to return to God. Maybe at one time or another, we have to play the role of elders to guide the young to come back to God without losing hope in the mercy and goodness of God.

Do we assist fallen men/women in coming back to God?

Gospel: Mk 4:35-41

 On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat so that the boat was already being swamped.  But he was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up and said to him, ‘Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?’ He woke up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, ‘Peace! Be still!’ Then the wind ceased, and there was a dead calm. He said to them, ‘Why are you afraid? Have you still no faith?’ And they were filled with great awe and said to one another, ‘Who then is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?’ (Mk 16:15-18)

Jesus was able to calm the sea and winds. Jesus is the Son of God. He has power over nature, over the sea and the winds.  We submit to anyone who has power.  The power that Jesus had in him was not human but God's power.

We believe that He is the Second person of the Trinity. If we submit ourselves to Jesus, we are fortunate. He came to save us. We will be safe if we are with Jesus. All the storms of our lives will be calmed if Jesus is in the boat of our lives.

Do you know that storms come into our lives to be calmed by Jesus?

St Brigid

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