God's Love is Like the Love of a Mother!

 

4th Week of Lent Wednesday

Isa 49:8-15

Meditation

God's Love is Like the Love of a Mother!

God, in his time, restores everything to the people of Israel. Even today, in the remote places and yet time in the cities, the living conditions are becoming worse. In the time of Israel of old, there were no proper roads, deserts, hills and valleys. They lived in hard conditions. In their poor conditions of life, they hoped and trusted in the Lord with great hope in the care and protection of God.

God is promising us that he will not forget us. Even if the mother forgets her nursing child, God will not forget us. It will not happen that a mother forgets her nursing baby. It could happen that sometimes the mothers forget that they are feeding their child. God is for us more than a mother, for a human being’s mother is the greatest image of love and care. God’s care is much more than that; often we say that God is unable to take care of us physically for all our needs, and that is why He has given us mothers. A vocation of mother is equal to God's love.

Does God's Love make us love him alone?

Gospel: Jn 5:17-30

Meditation

But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, and I also am working." For this reason, the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the sabbath, but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God (Jn 5:17-18).

Jesus speaks the fact that his Father is working, and he is also working. What is the work that Father and Son are doing? They are on a mission of loving humans and showing the way to be holy and happy. It is a work indeed. We do not understand how God can be working. We know this from Jesus’ involvement in the world to establishing the kingdom of God. We, too, learn this aspect of work from the great missionaries who worked assiduously for the salvation of souls.

Do we labour for the Kingdom of God?

Fr Putti Anthaiah Sdb

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