Walk again! People of God

At the conclusion of Matthew’s Gospel, from the Roman Catholic Lectionary (texts only link) today, it is noted that the people praised God that such power had been given to people. Matthew tells of Jesus response to the faith of the people attending to a paralytic which was to declare that his sins were forgiven. It is this face of God that is present to believers; Forgiveness. Often, like the psalmist, we attend to and even celebrate the justice of the Divine. Certainly justice is a Divine quality but as Amos suggests the consequences of forgetting the relationship with God can be drastic for peoples and individuals. The mercy of God triumphs over the failings of God’s people. Through Divine initiative, we walk again!