The WORD in ADVENT - Living the Reign here and now #2

COME, WALK IN THE LIGHT

First Monday in Advent, December 3, 2018

Isaiah 2: 1-5; Matthew 8: 5-11

Living the Reign here and now, is the call we have this Advent and the first way given to us, to accomplish that is to heed to the call that the Word gives us today: Come, walk in the Light!

Walking in the Light is walking in the presence of Christ, the Light! Isaiah speaks of a people who walk in the Light as the New Jerusalem, the City of God, the promised land... various names for the Reign of God! Reign of God is amidst us when we begin to walk in the light, walk according to the words of the Light! 'You say and it shall be done! You say and my servant shall live! You say and everything shall be new!'

Yes, when the Lord says and we commit to live by what the Lord says, everything shall be new, everyone shall be healed and the humanity shall be whole again! That is the Reign we look forward to, the fullness of life. This is the week of hope, in Advent. A week that invites us to hope in the Lord, await the light of the Lord, the light which is already here, all for us to receive and reflect.

We have a lovely example in St. Francis Xavier whom we celebrate this day: a man like the centurion in the Gospel - who came to know the Lord late - but once he knew him, his commitment was total, absolute, without any compromise whatsoever! That is walking in the Light! 

All that we need to do today is, decide and commit ourselves to walk in the light! And doing so, we shall live the Reign here and now!