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The Servant of the Lord in the Book of the Prophet Isaiah will be the agent to gather the diaspora to return to Jerusalem under the guidance of God in a feminine depiction.
* [49:8] You: the individual is not named; perhaps Cyrus or the prophet.In the Gospel from John, Jesus declares His connection to God as Son.
* [5:28–29] While Jn 5:19–27 present realized eschatology, Jn 5:28–29 are future eschatology; cf. Dn 12:2.Mike Cherney can replace “Him” with “Her” in the text and see the same kind, loving, protecting and merciful God from a different perspective.
Jesus makes known His extraordinary personal charge in the Gospel. This is not just a commitment to be a servant of God’s will, but it also reveals His special connection to God. I can imagine myself as one of the religious leaders. In that role I know how I would have slandered Jesus, but His response would be the type of thing that would put me over the edge. This reflection leaves me wondering today what my special connection to God is. How willing am I to demonstrate and to bluntly express my relationship with God?Don Schwager explains Jesus role as a "covenant" to the people.
Jesus was sent by the Father as "a covenant to the people" to reconcile them with God and restore to them the promise of paradise and everlasting life. Jesus' words and actions reveal God's mercy and justice. Jesus fulfills the prophecy of Isaiah when he brings healing, restoration, and forgiveness to those who accept his divine message.Friar Jude Winkler connects the infrequent use of a feminine image of God in the Hebrew Testament to concern with confusion with the fertility gods of the Middle East. The masculine image of God in John is used to affirm that Jesus and the Father are One. If we accept Jesus we will be living in the Love of the Trinity.
Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, shares the thoughts of Joanna Macy on The Great Turning. She and Molly Young Brown are optimistic that despite our conditioning by the industrial society of the last two centuries, we want to name, once again, this world as holy.
The insights and experiences that enable us to make this shift may arise from grief for our world that contradicts illusions of the separate and isolated self. Or they may arise from breakthroughs in science, such as quantum physics and systems theory. Or we may find ourselves inspired by the wisdom traditions of native peoples and mystical voices in the major religions . . . that reminds us again that our world is a sacred whole in which we have a sacred mission.The mother gathering dispersed children and the Son as the agent of the Will of the Father offer images of God that will be crucial as we act to restore the world ravaged by our greed in the last few centuries.
References
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(2017, December 30). 2018 Daily Meditations - Center for Action and Contemplation. Retrieved March 14, 2018, from https://cac.org/2018-daily-meditations/
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