28/07/2024

Our Father  in heaven is "three in one". He is the source of all being. Without him there would be nothing. God has no beginning or end. He reveals himself and we respond. We are because God created us and knows us and every other atom of matter that he has ever created.

Creation is measured by time, but there is no way to measure God or his Eternity, which is without beginning or end. "There is one Lord, one Faith, one Baptism and one God who is Father of all, over all, through all and in all and within all".

Our relationship with God has us curtail our freedom and measure our selves against the rules of conduct that are also part of his creation. We are conscious of our being, we know that we are alive and know that our bodies obey the same instincts as do all animals and have a life-time limited by biological constraints.

One nation, known by its unique DNA, was favoured by God. The Old Testament is a record of that nation's failure to overcome its self-love. Their beauty, intelligence and unique position in the eyes of God became too much for them and Human Pride always forgets God.

We cannot understand our God for he is eternal and our understanding of events is trapped in time and we see cause and effect in everything that we know. I have always tried to understand what it is about mankind that is so valuable that in the Old Testament God loves the Jews, chastises, loves  again and finally reveals the entirety of his Love by bringing total forgiveness in the way that he did on Calvary.

The first reading and the Gospel has the same miracle. Eternity is seen in our time and space and there is a change in the laws of Physics. Neither of  the miracles seems to have any lasting effect. Jews went on to instigate the death of the author of the miracle, the incarnate Son of God and we Christians are today mostly led by the same materialism that is the "Gospel" of Mammon and is the dominant force in our world today.

Dear Lord, I have been taught that by knowing, loving and serving I can become the being that you created me to be. I live in time and know how I change from minute to minute. You never change and  Father,Son,Holy Spirit of one substance you will only good for your creation and for me. Help my being control itself so that I am never swayed to deny you again by sin. You promised that you would return. It's bit pointless my repeating, thy will be done, as of course it will but I do hope that the continuing denial of you that is the World today can be brought to an end so that we can all come to the joy that will be New Creation when you are all in all. Amen