04/09/2022

The Old Testament is full of wisdom not only in this book of Wisdom. Wisdom is what enables us to respond to God and to our place in his creation. Wisdom enables us to understand that, this morning,  Jesus is telling us to avoid the attachments that take the place of God in our lives. 

We are completely free in our beings. We can make choices without constraint as we live out our lives. Our bodies are limited by our flesh. Our minds can soar throughout our imaginations. I know that even as I write my mind can wander into past present and future and be anywhere than it should be. In this "now" I am trying to be accepting of my cross and follow the Lord even though I am without Sacramental life.

If we try to work out what it is to be on Earth, to live out our lives within the limits of human understanding is hard enough for us. We know that our interests and our search for financial security can dominate our beings and these can be pursued in innocence. But if we remain in this "innocence"without thought of the revelation that has come from God then we are not using the Wisdom that is part of the gift to humanity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

Human thought can achieve an understanding of the world and our lives in it but there is a snag in that, for the wisdom of the World is limited by the "dust" that is the Universe in which we all live and that "dust" is corrupted by the power of Satan which has convinced so many that humanity is enough unto itself and that recognising God is a mark of primitive ignorance and without Wisdom. Our Creator is the Evergreater and so is beyond our power to understand but by the grace of Holy Wisdom we are able to know, love and serve in this world and be enfolded in Love in Eternity.

Dear Lord, I hope that I am not egotistically thinking thoughts but am really serving you who have no need of anything. Jesus seems to be a hard master today but his life, death and resurrection are the source for eternal life for your suffering humanity and so we trust that he is warning us and not telling us to hate the people nearest to us. May Mary's, whose mother's love was the first love encountered on earth by your Son, prayers be heard continually in the war between our souls and the legions of the devil and let the merciful grace of  Calvary flood over the whole world.