WORD 2day: Monday, 5th week in Easter time
May 11, 2020: Acts 14: 5-18; John 14: 21-26
Jesus seems to be winding up his earthly phase with his disciples and he bids them farewell as if to say they have to take his place there after. This whole week we shall listen to this series of sayings from Jesus. He had assured them, that their faith in God and their faith in him, will stand them in good stead... they will do all that he did and even more (cf. Jn 14:12). Today he promises an added facilitator: the Holy Spirit. All these promises were not mere words... they worked.
The People saw in the apostles great prowess... they healed the paralytics and gave life to the dead. The people found it so overwhelming that they thought that the gods had descended on them. If we really believed in the Lord and beheld his risen presence with us truly, people would see great things in and through us. The world needs people of God today; the world longs to see the real majesty of God revealed in ordinary things and we ought to be the instruments in the hands of God.
Especially during moments such as what we are traversing right now, the world and the suffering humanity needs people of God - not those who "use" the name of God to run their businesses, not those who manipulate the situation to instill the fear and guilt that would make people run to God, not those who make use of the opportunity to make themselves "on demand" and "popular" - but true people of God, who would make the presence of God felt in all simplicity and silence, sincerity and service. That requires that we surrender ourselves to God and remain totally disposed to God's will.
Especially during moments such as what we are traversing right now, the world and the suffering humanity needs people of God - not those who "use" the name of God to run their businesses, not those who manipulate the situation to instill the fear and guilt that would make people run to God, not those who make use of the opportunity to make themselves "on demand" and "popular" - but true people of God, who would make the presence of God felt in all simplicity and silence, sincerity and service. That requires that we surrender ourselves to God and remain totally disposed to God's will.
How prepared am I to dispose myself into the hands of God? Can I allow the Spirit of the Lord to take hold of myself and reveal through me the merciful, loving and powerful presence of the Lord today, to those around?
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