22/09/2021

If I ask myself what is the "Good News" I know that it is the salvation that has been given to all the humanity of the world by the historical events that are recoded in the books of Good News started by the followers of Jesus. Some of these same followers were sent to spread the "Good News" to their countrymen and yet the central event had not yet taken place.  Did they know Jesus as the Son ? The narrative of the synoptic Gospels reveals that they did not. They preached only to their countrymen in the frame work known to all Jews.

They were Jews and they followed Jesus for they saw him as another prophet sent by God to stir up the faith of their nation which was submerged by the Roman Empire and its continuation of the Hellenization which had begun with the glorification of Alexander Some of them had political hopes which were totally destroyed by the real "Good News".

God has continued to guide the special relationship he had with the Jewish Nation from the days of the patriarchs and with the Incarnation of the Living God into that nation he completed the covenants but was again rejected. Jesus is  the "Good News" for although "God  punishes he also has mercy",. The Superabundant Mercy that is God is brought to all the world by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son. But this power is not compulsion we have to have to make the choice to accept and live by it.

Dear Lord, I pray that I may avoid sin and partake of that Mercy which surpasses all understanding.