Changes in life
As Catholics, we do not only
draw ourselves in the active participation in the institution of the Eucharist
but we manage to relate ourselves in the act of sharing our life and religious
experiences in the context of what was written in the Sunday gospel. We should
not only display the Bible without reading it, but we should live a
contemplative life closely associating ourselves to what was written in those
pages of the scriptures.
We should be aware of the danger of what will substitute in our
minds if we allow ourselves to be influenced by the evil things around. We
should find ourselves drawn away from vices and vigilant as we go back to the
basic reality of our lives, that we are created through the word of God. Each
word God says gives life. We should go back to the reality where when we see
our life, we do not only live by the bread we eat but also by the Bible we
read.
We should celebrate the word of God in the community even in the
midst of terrorism, bombings and immorality. We ought to be guided by the word
of God everywhere even in our family life. Husband should love their wives and
wives should do the same to their husbands. The concrete example why many
couples today do not agree with each other is because no one cares of the
concern that their life should be focused on God.
The Bible changes the life of a person. Hosea every time for
example has to run after Gomer, his wife who live the life of a prostitute.
This is because of love and the word God said to Hosea that greatly influenced
his life. He forgives his wife not only once, and not only in praise for the
Lord but for love.
The word of God should be
powerful enough to touch our lives. It must not remain as the word but it should
open to us its flesh, that it be made flesh and should dwell among us. This is
why we celebrate Christmas where the word becomes our companion. We join
singing the praises for the Lord meant for this highest gift of God being with
us. With this gift of God sharing himself, we should endure life with patience
and that we should learn to forgive and forget the mistakes done to us by our
neighbor.
The greatest gift is to forgive others. We should connect
ourselves to the meaning of Christmas that we open ourselves to a new life
where we learn to forgive and manage to forget the stain of evil long ago. We
should reflect on our being a gift and we should be reflecting on the role of
the Holy Spirit in the life of Christ, even on the wound we receive long ago.
It is foolishness to say, I have sinned because I am weak. With Canaan .
the hardness of lives in our midst, our life should be open to the good, which
is the act to learn the Bible. Why is it that the Bible is inspired? Don’t you
know that many writers in the community write the Bible? It was not written in
one sitting. Stories occurs in the 13th century up the to time of Moses till
the Baptism of Jesus. The history of the bible begins with Abraham on the
context of his family life. It was the history of Holy Theism or a holy belief
in One God. Where before there is a god of Fertility, the god of Fire, the god
of Harvest and Agriculture; Abraham followed the God who endures with him, and
leaves his family where God drew him to
When Sarah conceives Isaac, she was 80 years old while Abraham Egypt to tread a way back to
Canaan . The Pharaoh was told
was 100 years old, Isaac married Rebecca and like Sarah, God opened the womb of
Rebecca, where to her were born Esau and Jacob. Abraham became rich through her
wife Sarah with whom the Pharaoh falls in love with. Abraham was asked to take
everything he wants that he may leave
that Sarah is precious to God because she would be the mother of the nations.
Jacob begot twelve boys. His brothers sold Joseph the youngest Egypt . Joseph has the ability
to the merchants going to
to interpret dreams and from being imprisoned for a long time, he was hailed
from being a slave to a governor who was in-charge of the grains sold. Many
years later, God through Moses delivered the Israelites from being subjects of
the Egyptians. It was destined that people may know that God was their Creator.
The whole community of Israelites wanted their God to save them that’s why they
see hope through Moses. But not all believe Moses that’s why not all first born
of Israelites did live for some refuse to put blood above their doorpost.
The beauty of writing the scripture was the very nature of Egypt , was the same God who Egypt .
experiencing the word of God for the word could save us. God, who saves the
Israelites from
helps the disciples to write the Bible, and it was preserved whole all
throughout life with the word affecting our life in a concrete form making our
spiritual life more active. Let us allow getting hold of this religious
experience where we attribute the miracles and the changes in our lives to the
experience that God help us in the very time of our need like the way he helped
the Israelites away from
-Jyotisman Nearu Upendra
