Our Disposition To Christ

 

The truth is that salvation is in Jesus Christ. 

Reflection on Today’s Readings, Wednesday of 2nd Week of Easter, Year B, April 10th, 2024
Texts: Acts 5:17-26; Psalm 34:2-9; John 3:16-21 

                        Our Disposition to Jesus Christ

Jesus’ teaching on judgment reveals that those who are good have faith in Him. This is because He will be appealing to them. They will find their desires fulfilled in Him. Hence, Jesus says, “But he who does what is true comes to the light, that it may be clearly seen that his deeds have been wrought in God.” Rejecting Jesus Christ is a proof that we do not desires good but evil. Jesus puts it thus: “For every one who does evil hates the light, and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.” 

Jesus Christ becomes to the world a litmus test for good and evil: Faith in Him is an affirmation of love of truth, goodness, integrity and readiness to be saved; the rejection of Him is an affirmation of love of evil, perversion, sin and choosing to be condemned. Jesus puts it thus: “And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” Hence, our disposition to Christ is an expression of our choice to be saved or to be condemned.  

Jesus Christ is an expression of God’s love for us

Our disposition to Jesus Christ is also an expression of our acceptance or rejection of God’s love. This is because Jesus Christ is an expression of God’s love for us. We read, "God so loved the world that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” What is this love of God? It is that we may be saved. We read, “For God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.” 

We see in today’s first reading how the children of darkness hold tightly to evil. It also reminds us that God saves those who believe in Him. We read, “But at night an angel of the  Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out and said, ‘Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of this Life.’" In spite of the manifestation of God’s saving power, they did not repent. The truth staring them in the face, yet they rejected it. The truth is that salvation is in Jesus Christ.  

Prayer 

As we recall year by year the mysteries by which, through the restoration of its original dignity, human nature has received the hope of rising again, we earnestly beseech your mercy, Lord, that what we celebrate in faith we may possess in unending love. Amen 

Fr. Andrew Olowomuke