Spiritual Blessings!

Every morning God brings His justice to light, He never fails. Zephaniah 3: 5b

Justice is a big word. I think of courts, judges and police when I think of justice. Justice is where truth is upheld or should be upheld. It in justice a wrongdoer is punished and righteous is set free. So, justice is a pretty big and powerful word.

But then there is another way to look at justice. Justice is love. Love that gives everything to the one who is loved. Justice is giving what the other deserved. God was just when he gave His only Son Jesus Christ to be crucified, not because of Christ’s wrong doing, but because God loved us all from eternity and wants us all to be with God for an eternity. Why did we deserve it? Because we came from God and we belong to God. God couldn’t bear the thought of losing us in damnation. So, His only Son was sacrificed to regain us for ever. There was no other way fairness could be brought about to everything and everybody God created.

Injustice comes from lack of love and care. People become arrogant and uncaring because of not recognizing or accepting what the other person is and what the other deserves. It is a result of placing us worthier for God’s love than the other. It is when we think of us better than the other.

If God brings His justice to light every morning without fail, and gives us what we deserve, which is an eternity and life with God, why shouldn’t I lighten up someone’s life? Can God’s justice come alive every morning through us?

Blessings

Fr. Jos

See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Isaiah 49:16

Engraving is a way of creating memories and making memories last a longtime. Depending on what is engraved and where it is engraved the nature and power of engraved names or figures will change. Engraving is a way of giving freedom. It is a way of making the potential and beauty of the other permanent.

Imagine this, every time God extended God’s hand to create and transform, we were part of that whole process as we were, our names, figures and our hearts were on that Palm that was extended to bring about newness and life. Never once you were away from the whole process of creation. Never will you be not part of it in the future whether you become aware of it and do not want it. Imagine this, each creation came into being it came through the power of God and through the figure of you,  with you watching it with a smile and a wonder. You came alive through the palms of God every time and everywhere God intended life.

The whole creation is a fulfillment of the potential that God saw in you and me. Even through the damaged moments of our life sometimes depress us, God brings out the best as God can not and will not create without you and best of it, God lets you join him/her and have fun with him/her everyday and for a lifetime. As I said earlier, depending on what is engraved and where it is, your power and your potential changes. For you are engraved on the best that lasts for eternity - GOD.

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