Wednesday after Epiphany
“No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us and his love is brought to perfection in us.” Today we see one of the ways that God is revealed to us. It is through a radical love for each other that we come to an encounter with God that truly fulfills us. This bond of love we have for each other reveals God to us because he is the eternal love in which we were created. By living is loving relationship with all those we meet we enter into the love God has for us, the love that is so great that he sent his only begotten Son to us as expiation for our sins. Christ came to us to draw us into the eternal Love that is pure and perfect. This love is the love in which Christ freely lowered himself into our humanity and gave up his life so that we may enter into his eternal kingdom. Jesus is calling us into this love and we must be courageous in our desire for living in his love.
We are courageous because Jesus is with us, and he has sent his Spirit to be with us always, to guide us, and give us strength. When we find it hard to love because we have been hurt or betrayed, or when someone is hateful to us, or maybe it is someone whom society see as a burden or of little value… at that moment that we must persevere in love. For, “if we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us.”
Reflection by Br. Placid Dale, OSB
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