LOVE-LENT 2017 - THE WORD IN LENT #7

Love - the Power to Transform!

Wednesday, First week in Lent - 8th March, 2017

Jon 3:1-10; Lk 11: 29-32

Jonah was given as the sign to the people of Nineveh - but what was the sign? The sign was that the Lord loved the people of Nineveh, however sinful they might have been. Ordinarily they should have perished and that is what Jonah wanted - that the sinners perished. But with the Lord that is never a solution because God is love, and love alone has the power to transform. Jesus comes as the personification of that love, to transform the world and make us children of God. 

Secondly, Jonah was intent on going away from the plan of the Lord, not because of malice but because he feared that the people of Nineveh will escape from the punishment that was their due. But the Lord's love and insistence transforms Jonah's heart and Jonah takes the message of the Lord to the people. Love awaits to transform each of us and set us up as agents of transformation for the people around us. Are we filled with that love which is the power to transform? 

LOVE-LENT - THE WORD IN LENT #7