The Spirit Raises

WORD 2day: Tuesday, 2nd week after Easter

April 18, 2023: Acts 4: 32-37; John 3: 7-15

The first Chrsitian Community gives us a challenging example today, a prophetic witness! Just imagine a Christian community today, living exactly the way we read from the Acts of the Apostles... my be one of our parish communities, or our basic christian communities...or the Religious Communities of Consecrated life... how would the effect be in the immediate context around them or on the larger society or the world over, specially with the social network today that can spread that good news everywhere! It is easy to brush it aside, calling it an exaggerated and outdated model, or an impractical ideal, a utopia, or a time proven failure! But let us remember, that has been our original call and the challenge remains.

Jesus provides the key to this challenge: it is living in the Spirit, it is living our lives as if from above! We have received our life and everything in life as a gift from above. And when it is time for us to report back from where we come, we will go without anything in our hands. When we see things from above then, we would laugh at our folly as does the Lord now from heaven (see Ps 2:4). 

Just look at your life, even as you live it today, a little from above! And you will understand how foolish we can get... with our attachments and avarice, jealousy and treachery, and every other inhumanity for the sake of things that do not matter at all! The Spirit raises us... that is the key. When we decide to live in the Spirit, we shall live from above, becaue the Spirit raises us!