I sometimes think that to have been born in the generation that knew the Apostles and had become part of the Resurrection Church must be the greatest gift that our time of birth could have given to any soul.
Many of us in these days know that the world of which we know ourselves to be a miniscule part is not of the will of IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT. We cannot look at our screens this morning and recognise in any of the news headlines that God is with us guiding his humanity in the ways of righteousness.
But we can turn to this morning's readings and recognise the success of Barnabas and Paul we can wonder at the depth of the Psalmist's faith, "I will bless your name for ever my God and king" and then also wonder how that Faith could have crucified Jesus, how its descendants can mercilessly continue to slaughter thousands in Gaza.
Looking back through historical time it can be seen that Jesus meant it to be taken literally when he said "My kingdom is not of this world". We do know that the Father did not stop the crucifixion. I cannot understand the ways of God but I live in results in this twenty-first century that are certainly of man but permitted by God. We are all waiting for the return of Jesus which will bring the Eschaton. "Behold he who was sitting on the throne said " I am making all things new."
This morning John makes a prediction that we will all be comforted but only when we become truly honest friends of Jesus. The History of Mankind from "those days to these" has never been without the human prideful warfare that the Incarnation was to have brought to an end. Was the Albigensian Crusade or the burning of Joan of Arc a fulfillment of
" A new commandment I give to you: that you love one another
Just as I have loved you, you are to love one another.
By this all peoples will know that you are my disciples
If you have love for one another."
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