Heirs of eternal life

WORD 2day: Friday after the Epiphany Sunday

January 8, 2021: 1 John 5: 5-13; Luke 5: 12-16 

As sons and daughters of God, we are made heirs of eternal life, in the Son of God. It is a guarantee that is given to us by God the father and mother, that anyone who accepts the Son and believes in him, shall have eternal life, as a sign of being in the Son. Being in the Son, or being united to God in the Son, happens through the Spirit, through the blood and through water. 

The Word today prepares us towards the great feast we are about to celebrate in a couple of days: the Baptism of the Lord - where the Spirit of the Lord, the blood of the Lamb and the Waters of presence of God, unites us to God, the very source of our being. Being united with God means, sharing integrally in the nature of God... in God's eternity.

One who beleives in the Son, shall have eternal life, declares the Word today. Growing in union with Christ means, sharing in the nature of Christ, the Son of God. The Son of God, rose from the dead revealing to us, the real image that we are made in... the image of God, our true nature of being eternal. But naturally, when we are not united in Christ, we would not share that nature of being eternal. If we do not remain in God, we shall not share in the image and likeness that God grants us. 

Being in God, being in Christ, being in the Spirit, takes for granted that we be in love, because God is love! God is love and therefore one who is in God, is in love; one who is in God, is eternal; therefore, one who loves, grows to be eternal. Yes, the message today is clear: there is only one way of becoming heirs of eternal life - to love one another as God loves us!