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GOSPEL POWER l MAY 11, 2022 - WEDNESDAY
GOSPEL POWER l MAY 11, 2022 - WEDNESDAY
4th Week of Easter
Gospel: Jn 12:44-50
44Jesus cried aloud: “Whoever believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me. 45And whoever sees me sees him who sent me. 46I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness. 47I do not judge anyone who hears my words and does not keep them, for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48The one who rejects me and does not receive my word has a judge; on the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge, 49for I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak. 50And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me.”
Coming to Jesus always gives us a surplus experience, a two-in-one treat, as he attests in today’s Gospel. Jesus and the Father are one, thus Jesus is the visibility, the tangibility, and the very presence of God. Abiding in Jesus is a God-experience, a foretaste of what heaven means. But to reject Jesus and refuse to listen to him is to deny the Father who speaks in him words of eternal life. This act of rejection becomes a deliberate self-deprivation of the God-experience that only Jesus can offer. To be set apart from God as a result of one’s own decisions is a foretaste of hell here and now.
Lord Jesus, grant that we may always abide in you and thus rest securely in the presence of God. Amen.
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By Daughters of St. Paul | Phil-Malaysia- PNG-Thai Province
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GOSPEL POWER l MAY 11, 2022 - WEDNESDAY
4th Week of Easter
Gospel: Jn 12:44-50
44Jesus cried aloud: “Whoever believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me. 45And whoever sees me sees him who sent me. 46I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness. 47I do not judge anyone who hears my words and does not keep them, for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. 48The one who rejects me and does not receive my word has a judge; on the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge, 49for I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak. 50And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me.”
Coming to Jesus always gives us a surplus experience, a two-in-one treat, as he attests in today’s Gospel. Jesus and the Father are one, thus Jesus is the visibility, the tangibility, and the very presence of God. Abiding in Jesus is a God-experience, a foretaste of what heaven means. But to reject Jesus and refuse to listen to him is to deny the Father who speaks in him words of eternal life. This act of rejection becomes a deliberate self-deprivation of the God-experience that only Jesus can offer. To be set apart from God as a result of one’s own decisions is a foretaste of hell here and now.
Lord Jesus, grant that we may always abide in you and thus rest securely in the presence of God. Amen.