27/02/2022

In our first reading today we are told that we can know other people by their words. The potter's kiln tests the work of the potter. The fruit are proof of the soundness of the tree. Jesus too tell us pretty much the same thing; that our words reveal the state of our being. We must not be quick to evaluate each other especially when we are not aware of our own defects. The planks that show us to be the hypocrite that we are.

St Paul tells us us that we are able to overcome the power  of death. Christ has won victory over death. The words of St Paul come from what fills his heart. He has seen the resurrected Lord and Christ is who fills his heart. His teaching comes from Christ and from  the Old Testament and from what the other Apostles have taught him. He is the fully trained disciple who is like his master even unto a death by violence.

"The sting of death is sin and sin gets its power from the Law." I will have to spend some time today trying to understand what is in St Paul's heart and mind when he writes this.

Dear Lord let me be today a Christian man aware of the completenes of your presence in your Universe and in me too; a seemingly nothing but by the grace of your knowing me, I too become immeasurably greater for I can by my thoughts, words and deeds offer praise worship and service to you Father Son and Holy Spirit.