16/01/2025

Both first and second readings for today are still taken from the New Testament. The Psalm is King David doing then pretty much as I am today.

We both are (in his case were) souls embodied in the material reality that is the creation into which we have been born. Neither of us asked for life but both of us were born with the free will that is part of human being in order to fulfill the Love that is intrinsic to the supreme being of Our Father. 

We both are/were guided by the experiences of those who have preceded us in life on Earth.

Our bodies are the result of the creative process that we can recognise as evolution and have the same physical boundaries and instincts as do all mammals. For David the Universe of stars was visible in the days of zero light-pollution as the incredibly magnificent canopy of heaven which captivated the minds of many of David's neighbours. Astrology, which for us is a joke, was a serious enough error to be forbidden to the Chosen People.

I have often wondered why it is that IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT has had to go to the extent of the "Incarnation" with its pain and indescribable suffering to direct mankind out of the Jewish way of responding to his care of his Chosen People.

David's lifetime was particularly spectacular and he was also a devoted servant of God with "faults". I am much less spectacular but I too am aware of "faults" and with David I too can seek pardon. During his life-time Jesus knew the psalms and sang them in the Temple and Synagogue. His presence on Earth was in response to the "hardening" of Jewish hearts that taken place first of all in the wanderings through Sinai and were still manifest in the Chosen People"

The disasters that befell the descendants of Abraham were always interpreted by them as deserved punishment for "backsliding". The revelation of IAMIAM, the Old Testament, however contains only a small percentage of the rules that the Scribes and Priests,(not Our Father) demanded should be followed. The Jewish people were never condemned by Jesus but the self-absorbed righteous scribes and priests, who after the destruction of the Temple became the Rabbis, certainly were and with obvious reason.

Jesus at his execution forgave those who hammered the nails through his hands and feet on the basis of their unknowing that the man Jesus is the Son of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. The slaughterers of Palestinians in Gaza as I write these words know exactly what they are doing and they are also ready to tell IAMIAM that he is mistaken in that he has always expected them to do His will on Earth. 

This is the "fault"  away from which, Jesus is the only way, truth and light. My Saviour liveth! Alleluia! Come Lord Jesus Come.

Dear Lord, help me to live always in your presence aware of my sinfulness and never forget how puny I am without your care. I ask for one thing only that I may live within my own being aware of your love and never forgetting the price you paid with your very self to break all humanity free from the pride in being that leads all of us into the disobedience that became the Original Sin of our first parents. May I also be aware in prayer that there are millions of us who are hopeless without your grace to break our carapace of sin. May my prayers be joined with the prayers of Mary, David and all the saints that your chosen people reverse their centuries of "stiff-necked pride" and realise that the wisdom of the Nazarene Carpenter is immeasurably greater than the total output of all the Rabbis who have already or will ever live. Amen