Tuesday of the Fifth Week
In today’s Gospel, Jesus states that we will die in our sins if we don’t believe in Him. That’s intense, right? Well, it is, but imagine if He didn’t tell us and let us pass away without purpose. Faith in Jesus comes in two forms: The first is the mental acknowledgement of our faith and the second is the entrusting of our whole selves to God. In the first reading, we see that the Israelites fall short in the trust aspect of faith in God. Like many of us today, we acknowledge that God can help us, but often we lack the will to trust God with our whole life. When we face obstacles that life throws at us, we tend to stray from God like the Israelites did and punish ourselves in doing so.
Jesus came to earth to tell us that if we don’t believe in Him and follow Him, we will be punishing ourselves to the death that Jesus speaks about in the Gospel. Today we read that God, through the person of Jesus, is calling us to find comfort in being able to trust COMPLETELY in God and not in earthly things. Let us do this more fully this Lent and beyond. Only then will we know what unbounded grace God has in store for us.
Father God, help us to follow Your lead with no restraints so that we can bask in Your grace in this life on Earth and more fully after it. Thank You for sending Jesus to remind us that our purpose is to lay all of our trust in You alone. Amen.
Abbey Beach, ’22
Psalm 102:2-3, 16-21
Gospel: John 8:21-30
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