WORD 2day: Wednesday, 12th week in Ordinary time
June 25, 2025: Genesis 15: 1-12, 17-18; Matthew 7: 15-20
The Tree and the Fruits... that's a powerful metaphor of life!
Abraham, was a man of God, he was the father of the covenantal people! Abraham listened, obeyed, believed and remained loyal to the Lord who called him. The Covenant the Lord made was the tree, and Abraham's life choices were the fruits! He proved to be what he was called to be!
The eternal covenant that is made in the blood of Jesus Christ, is the guarantee of the grace and the gift of faith within us. It is the sap of the tree that we are, as God's children. While it is God's will that God has transformed us into God's children in our baptism, our daily life and regular choices have to bear fruits that will make it visible to the world and to ourselves, that we are trees of God, that we are children of God.
As the famous phrase, often attributed to William J Toms, reminds us: 'you may be the only bible that someone might read! Be careful with the way you live your life!' May your fruits identify who you are, not merely your self-trumpetting words. On the contrary, let us beware that our fruits do not betray who we really are in contrast to the over-blown claims that we may have about ourselves - as children of God, as people of God, as instruments of God and so on!
I am a Christian... and that has to be a fact not merely a title! Not merely in my activities, responsibilities and external duties that I carry out, but in every choice of mine, in every thought and expression of it, in every intention that gives rise to my words and my deeds at any moment of my life, I need to live a Christ-ian.
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