14/12/2025

Sunday Week 3 Advent

Only God can know how I am struggling at the keyboard this morning. I have read Isaiah and as usual am inspired by his acknowledgement of God's Glory but also somewhat resentful of God's seeming neglect of millions of others by his choosing only the one people to favour with direct revelation

I don't think that I have been neglected by God because I am not a Jew. Or do I have  to collapse in awe before the superiority of the human talents displayed in the arrogant self-confidence of Zionism and the wonder of the outstanding Jewish presence in all the affairs of this world?

God knows that I do not have it in me to hate anyone. My petty anger has always been short lived and resulted in embarrassment and self recrimination rather than lasting resentment of the other. He knows that I am not an "Anti-Semite" but He also knows  how weak I am and how I am such a fragile vessel to contain his Saving Grace.

Nevertheless, even in the depths of my tininess, I have been instructed by the TRUTH taught in word and deed by the living person INCARNATESON, Jesus of Nazareth and so am emboldened to  ask my "DAD" "Why were there then, the Gentiles, and are now so many souls in the world who have not accepted the benefit of your Love or even known that it has been revealed to them"?

Jesus bleeds out Loving Mercy for all mankind on Calvary. There we are all adopted into his "New Holy Family" but all this happened in time and it took  centuries for  many of us to even hear the name of Jesus. 

That is why today I pray with Jesus, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do", for all who and ever have been out of ignorance tied exclusively to "the things of this world" and for the rest of us, who have ignored the revelations concluded in the bitter pain of Calvary, I also pray for the Mercy that is thus totally beyond all human understanding. 

How could I refuse such Love. God forgive me. Amen