16/04/2025

The only way to truly follow the way, truth and light to the state of being that is holiness is by hearing the Word of God and conforming ourselves to all that it contains. I have often thought that to be an impossible task of which I was incapable. 

The Old Testament Prophets all struggled to uphold the faith with IAMIAM and honour the treaty into which they and their forbearers had been invited by God's promise. 

All the prophets proclaimed to their own communities and to the whole world that they were safe in their obedience to the  guidance of the "Good Shepherd" for the "Lord our God helps me, who will declare me guilty?"

I know that I cannot hold God in my mind. I can, however, recognise/respond to his revelations made throughout the history of mankind. I can be sure that 2000 years ago his indivisible being was incarnate as the only SON and God reveals himself as IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT.

Over the next three days we meditate on the real-time events of 2000 years ago.

I have often asked "Why was it then that Jesus was born?". Faith can offer no other answer than because that is when it happened. The texts of the Bible have to be accepted by his "image and likeness" as the evidence of God's will working in Time.

Anger is a human emotion that we have attributed to God. God has always known that His creation is "good". He made it to be holy. The Incarnation is not a response made in anger at the failure of his people to keep their side of his covenant but a renewal in time of the source of the Love that is his Being and the Source of creation.

The events of the next three days had all the elements in real-time that fascinate us today as do novels, films and TV dramas. "But there is something greater here". 

The New Testament accounts to which we will listen and read have the one element that all human fiction is lacking. They are the Truth which comes from God. They are the way the Truth and the life. They are the Truth that is guaranteed, "My Word will stand until the end of time."

Dear Lord, help me to come closer to faith-filled acceptance of Your Word, true repentance for my sins and hope that I will be able to show to my dear ones that there is nothing that is more important in our lives than knowing, loving and serving for you are the Love that can fill our hearts with joy as we stand in sorrow with the three Marys and John at the foot of your cross. Amen