Love and See great things

January 5, 2019 

Saturday after the Christmas Octave

1 John 3:11-21; John 1:43-51

Belonging to love and belonging to evil... that is the contrast brought out in the Word today. And the world becomes place more and more for this polarisation - note it, it is not love versus hate, but love versus evil! It is as if to say, anything contrary to love is evil! That is the mind of Christ, and John captures it well. 

There are any number of opportunities and circumstances that will beckon us to belong to evil - with jealousy, treachery, obsession with wealth, craving for power, limitless greed and so on. All these are evil, leading us to hatred and destruction. 

If we wish to choose to belong to love, we have to wrestle with an entire system, the social bias, the culture of death, the urge to dominate and so on. We shall be taken for granted, we shall be thoroughly cheated; we would be drawn to courts and at times treated with scorn; we shall be called names upon and deprived of our basic human respect! When we make the choice, we have to make up our minds too... to be firm and not to give in to the evil!

The Lord says today - when you make such a choice, you shall see great things happen! You will witness extraordinary things if only you belong to the Lord, if only you belong to love! What a lovely preparation for tomorrow's feast: the Lord wishes to manifest himself to us, but we shall see the Lord only if we belong to the Lord, only if we choose love! Love and you shall see great things!