God has an awesome plan for humanity – a plan of rescue and radiance for each one of us and all of us. It began in the Garden of Eden and is woven throughout the whole history of the world, from Adam and Noah and Moses and Abraham and David, through Jesus and the Church, the martyrs of the Colosseum and the French Revolution, the rise and fall of nations and peoples, the choices of saints and sinners, and the lives of you and me.
But we usually settle for so much less than He desires for us because we cannot see the big picture, the plan of salvation, the utterly breathtaking reason of the universe. We need to repeatedly look at our place in the universe and in time – which is infinitesimally small – and then come to appreciate and receive our position in the Heart of God – which is disproportionately large! We are each large in God’s Heart.
God loves us. In truth, He loves us so much that He chose to create a world and a Heaven that would not be complete without you and me. He loves us so much that He gave Himself over to a life of poverty and toil and laid down His life in a humiliating execution to prove His love and secure our place with Him forever.
We like happy endings, but God loves beginnings with no ending. You and I are created to live with Him in indescribable joy and peace forever. Forever.
It is the deep desire of His Heart that we receive this gift and allow Him to save us. We must open our eyes and our minds and our hearts to this rescue operation and take up His yoke to work with Him to achieve the goal He has for us. But we find it hard to accept, because we are fallen and free. We can choose to reject this great plan.
Jesus reproaches those who have seen the mighty deeds that were intended to free them from their slavery to sin and darkness so that they could be rescued, because they refused to receive this great gift of freedom. They refused to see and receive His loving offer. His reproach is not full of anger, but full of mourning; love that is not received grieves because it sees clearly that a rejection of love leads to misery.
Let us pray today for the grace to receive this awesome offer of rescue from the Heart of Love, so that we take up the yoke of true freedom and follow in His footsteps to live with Him forever.
Daily Reading
Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 Is 7:1-9 In the days of Ahaz, king of Judah, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah,Rezin, king of Aram,and Pekah, king of Israel, son of Remaliah,went up to…
Saint of the Day
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
According to the traditions of the Carmelite order, on July 16, 1251, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to St. Simon Stock and revealed to him the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
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