Word for the day “Jesus is absolute”
John 12:49 For I have not spoken on My own authority; but the Father who sent Me gave Me a command, what I should say and what I should speak. 50. And I know that His command is everlasting life. Therefore, whatever I speak, just as the Father has told Me, so I speak.”
Family of God, in today’s Gospel, Jesus makes it clear for all those in proximity that he and the Father are one.
It’s imperative for us all to know with certainty God is not a distant force or a spiritual presence hanging out behind the scenes of your life. The Lord is not an option that you can tap into when you feel like it. Jesus makes the case and points that God is not a distant supreme being who organized the universe long ago and now leaves us nor it to its own devices.
Jesus is saying, God, is the Lord. God is the commander, the ruler, the governor, the one who makes a demand and who then involves himself intimately in the affairs of the world, and in fact, that’s who He is in the person of Jesus Christ.
Bishop Barron writes and asserts in his daily reflection “There is more to it, this Lord is one. This is, as argued by Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI), a subversive statement, for it undermines anyone or anything else’s claim to be absolute. No country, no president, no prime minister, no culture, no book, no person or political party is absolute—only God. The unity of God, for Jews and Christians, is not simply a theoretical claim; it is an enormously important existential claim. Jesus and the Father are one God, who is the Lord of all creation”.
Point to Ponder
There is something amazing about our Lord, may your life be touched to the extent that you’ll never be the same. Jesus is ever with each of us now, may you find him in your journey through life’s peaks and valleys.
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