Humans are Destined for Eternity!

 

29th Week Thursday in Ordinary Time

Year One

Rom 6:19-23

Meditation

Humans are Destined for Eternity!

Humans are destined for death and end but to life and beginning thereafter. This is our hope and belief  in Jesus. Humans’ nature could lead one to sin and evil.  Leaving to humans they can get lost into sin and eternal deamination. God does not want to leave humans in their wretchedness he wants them to have eternal life. He comes down to earth and redeems them through his glorious passion. He has not abandoned humanity but to save them. He took upon himself all the sins of humanity of past, present, future and justified them. Having justified them he leads them to sanctification through ministers of word, church and sacraments. Humans are not lost everything in their sin but in Jesus they have found everything for life eternal. The power of the passion of Our Lord has done immense good to all generations of people. Humans can just trust in the eternal merits Our Lord Jesus has won for humanity. How happy are the humans who trust and believe in Saviour Jesus Christ.

Are we aware through the passion of Jesus humans are destined for life eternal?   

Year Two

Eph 3:14-21

Let us Praise God!

The breadth and length and height and depth of the love of God is experienced and manifested in all saints. The love of God surpasses the knowledge of God. God dwells in our hearts. The knowledge about God gives information about God but the love of God comes from experience. Love of God is greater than the knowledge of God. The feeling and belief that God dwells in our hearts makes us confident in the love of God.

God does much for us because he loves us. He loves us and blesses us more than we ask and think. God’s power is working in us. God will not abandon us. He is constantly at work in the world and in each individual. God is shaping the world and shaping everyone according to his eternal plan. Let us praise him and give him glory.

Are we aware that God’s love envelops us?

Lk 12:49-53

“I have come to cast fire upon the earth, and how I wish it were already ablaze! I have a baptism with which to be baptized, and what constraint I am under until it is completed!  Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division! From now on five in one household will be divided, against two and two against three; they will be divided: father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.” (Lk 12:49-53).

The Good News that Jesus brought in the world is like a fire. It burns up the evil in us. We have received light  on the day of our baptism as the apostles received tongues of fire upon them on the day of Pentecost. This is one way of understanding of the fire in the Church. For us, in the normal sense, fire means it burns and destroys. Fire has both destructive and constructive nature. How do we make use of the fire is the matter of concern. The word of God is the fire in us. We need to make use of the Word of God for the good. Because of the gospel there were divisions in the family and in the society. If we stand for the gospel, we will be rejected and abandoned. The followers of the Gospel will be a sign of division for God and contradiction in the society, because of their witness for the values of the Kingdom.

Am I a contradiction for the sake of the Kingdom of God?

Fr Putti Anthaiah Sdb

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