Humans Look for Time of Grace!

 

29th Week Wednesday in Ordinary Time

Year One

Rom 6:12-18

Meditation

Humans Look for Time of Grace!

Human bodies are instruments of sin and grace. Let no one use the human body as a means for sin. Let the human body glorify God. The human body is God’s gift and God’s Marval. Through the human body, humans to some extent comprehend God and his glory. The word of God says humans are made in the image of God. God has free will and he is perfect; God always makes good choices. Instead, humans lack the capacity to make use of the free will well and fall into evil, disobedience and sin. Let us not use human bodies to pride and disobedient losing the grace of God but use  for righteousness’ sake. humans were slaves of disobedience to God but now through the power of the passion of our Lord Jesus we are made slaves of righteousness. One has to offer himself/herself for the mercy and obedience of God through Jesus Christ for fullness of life on earth and in heaven.

Are humans aware that they make the choice to grace or sin in their human life?

Year Two

Eph 3:2-12

The Gospel Belongs to All

St Paul has been chosen to be the minister of Gentiles. God has revealed great mysteries of faith to St Paul. St Paul humbly acknowledges that he has been given revelation that has not been given for ages. It took time for God to reveal and for the faithful to comprehend the truth about God to all people of God.

The mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs of the same body of Christ and partakers in the gospel of Christ. This truth has to be preached to the rulers and authorities on earth and in heaven. St Pual is a witness to this fact through his life and preaching. We can be certain and bold in the Lord that this is a truth that the gospel belongs to the Gentiles, too.

Do we believe that there is only one God and that we are all his children?

Lk 12:39-48

“But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” (Lk 12:39-40).

The thief comes in the hour we least expect. The death comes without any notice. We do not know when the end is going to come. In the same manner we do not know when the Son of Man is going to come. The lesson that we need to learn is to be watchful and ready to meet the Lord.  To be ready means, to live a good life, to give an account of life to the Lord. We need not postpone the matter of spiritual life. We are given life in this world to live to the full but we are not able to live to the full because we are weak and fragile. To live to the full, we have to reflect and mend our ways according the path shown by Jesus and be ever ready to meet the Son Man, who is going to come in an hour we least expect.

Am I ready to meet the Son of God in the unexpected hour?

Fr Putti Anthaiah, sdb

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