God's Love
In today's Gospel reading (Matt 5: 17-19), Jesus affirmed that he did not come to abolish the laws of the prophets, "but to complete it." He added love in the law.
Jesus' teachings is all about love...love your God, love your parents, love your neighbours, love the poor and the marginalised, love the sick and mentally ill, love your enemies. Throughout his ministry, he showed us how to love - in his healing of the sick and the possessed, in his sermon on the mount, in his miracle of the five loaves and two fish to feed the multitude of people who followed him, in his forgiving the adulterous woman, in his healing of the Centurion's servant, in his teachings in parables so people could understand, in his forgiving Peter who denied him 3 times at his darkest hour, in his welcoming the 'good' thief on the cross and even in his forgiving his persecutors who crucified him. The list goes on.
What pure and great love God has for us, sinners though we are! Can we turn our back against him? Our living God is calling us everyday, to want to love us and for us to experience and share in his infinite goodness. All he need is for us to tell him, "I believe, Lord, and I desire to love you with all my heart, with all my soul and with all my mind." Can you imagine how happy our Lord will be?
Once we have experienced God's love and mercy, we will want to change the way we live our lives. We find ourselves more forgiving, more compassionate, kind, patient, more charitable and we will be able to love more. These are gifts from God, to help us live a richer, more fulfilled and secured life; to help us be his instrument on this earth to extend the same graces to our fellow human beings, so that they too can come to know and believe and love so great a God.
In the first place it should be known that
if a person is seeking God, His Beloved is
seeking him much more.
- St John of The Cross-
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