Reflection on Today's Readings, Wednesday of 3rd Week of Advent, Year C, December 15th, 2021 Texts: Is. 45:6b-8.18.21b-25; Ps. 85:9-14; Luke 7:19-23 Jesus is content with revealing His identity through His works. In today's gospel reading, John the Baptist sent two of his disciples to Him to inquire if He was the expected Messiah. He did not give yes or no answer, He simply asked them to tell John the Baptist what they had seen. In His words: "Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, the poor have good news preached to them." It is left for John the Baptist to judge if He was the expected Messiah or not. What we need is the good news to be preached to us, it is left for us to believe it or not. This reminds us that our destiny is in our hands. We will all face the consequence of the decision we make. However, to believe the message is to be blessed, for He immediately adds, "And blessed is he who takes no offence at me.”
Jesus also invites us to live life so well that, without telling people we are Christians, they could know by our ways of life that we are Christians. We have to conduct our lives in a way that befit our faith. Some of us are content with telling people that we are Christians without justifying it in our deeds. Some of us who are Christians are corrupt in our work places, we oppress, we perpetrate injustice, we cheat, we are prompt to curse and abuse, we keep malice and refuse to forgive. Some of us gossip a lot, we say what we do not see, we read meanings into people's actions and call them names. We just have to learn how to live rightly.
Today's first reading invites us to put our faith in God who has power over every condition. He has power over them because He created them. Since He created them He can also make them ceased. We are reminded that He is a righteous God and a Saviour. Being righteous He will always mean well for us. Being a Saviour He will always rescue us from bad situation.
The reading also reminds us that it is righteousness that brings about salvation and that salvation itself also engenders righteousness. It is said, "Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the skies rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation may sprout forth, and let it cause righteousness to spring up also; I the Lord have created it.”
Lord our God, the source of holiness, bestow upon us righteousness, that we may win salvation. Amen
Fr. Andrew Olowomuke
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