05/02/2026

We all of us live in "interesting times". 

The events that any of us witness as we come to know the reality of our own being and whatever we witness around us are the confirmation that "iam" and that I need to know that we all need to be as aware as is David that we are neither self-created nor self-sufficient. 

We are all creatures and subjects of "The Lord " who has revealed himself to be the all powerful IAMIAM in whose invisible "image and likeness" we have all been created.

Jesus warns all nations that we should beware of the "interesting times" of this world for at his trial before the representatives of this world both secular i.e. Pilate and Religious i.e. High Priests he makes the categorical statement "My kingdom is not of this world".

I know that "this world" of "those times" i.e. the living culture of Jews and Gentiles, Temple and Empire were both unacceptable as satisfactory modes of human life by our Father who had required his people whom he had led out of Egypt to follow ten rules while living in this world as a preparation for his "End of Time".

God alone knows why he chose that particular time and place for his Incarnation.

St Paul tells us that we have never been left alone on this planet and that the Resurrection has finalised  the teaching of Moses and become the focus that supersedes all "Interesting Times".

In this morning's Gospel. The first missionaries are to go into Galilee without any possessions. They are literally to present themselves at a stranger's door and offer a blessing and without any manipulation on their part accept the outcome.

God knows that I am already explaining to myself how this could be by attributing the blind obedience of the Disciples to the only really "Interesting Times" the world has ever known; that was His presence in Time in this World, 2000 years ago.

He also knows that I am also preoccupied by the way Jews are still so prominent in the things of this world as the Institutional Churches that he founded on St Peter fade into irrelevance.

"Irrelevance", however, is in the mind of the observer. IAMFATHERSONHOLYSPIRIT knows and loves us all and we must never forget that the "things of this world" are temporal distractions which we have to ignore if we are to live according to His Will by obeying His commandments.

According to Chinese proverbial wisdom "May you live in interesting times" is a curse and time in this world truly is so even in words of Jesus.

"What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world but suffer the loss of his own soul?".