The Relationship: covenant of love, not sin offerings!

WORD 2day: Wednesday, 3rd week in Ordinary time

January 29, 2025 - Hebrews 10:11-18; Mark 4: 1-20

God's relationship with the children of God is a covenant of love, God repeatedly has emphasised this fact, as the letter to the Hebrews explains to us today. God does not take up the sins of the past or require a settlement from one, once the person decides to commit oneself to the covenant of love! Once a person makes that commitment, the decision grows. Yes, although the decision made is once for all, it does not exclude moments of setbacks, failures and difficulties. 

Jesus presents us with a parable to understand that - that of the sower and the seed! It is God's love that has sown the inspiration to commit ourselves to this covenant of love - once we make this decision to commit, there could be situations of precarity when the enemy is at the best, trying to snatch us away from God our Father and Mother; we need to overcome that, let us not fret God is with us. 

Once we begin that journey, anytime we could hit the rock bottom, for our energy and enthusiasm is not always the same; but what matters is our original decision and let us not lose heart, the Lord of love is with us. Continuing that journey, we might come across thorns and thistles, bushes and shrubs that could block our way ahead, but all that we need to do is keep looking ahead, the One who has sown, shall reap when it is ready!

When we persevere in that original decision to commit to that covenant of love, we shall see that we bear fruit, we inspire many more, we inspire the world around and the Reign of God will show itself up. That is the relationship to which the Lord has called us - a relationship of love, a relationship of fidelity, a relationship of never failing covenant.