Moving to Greater Understanding

The call to Abram to leave his land and journey along a path guided by the Lord is presented today in the Roman Catholic Lectionary. This text from the book of Genesis is a model which is extremely relevant today. The development of the relationship between God and humanity is routed in the willingness of Abram to surrender to the will of God that he found “a great nation”. The faith of Abraham becomes the praise of the psalmist of God who sees and is steadfast in love of the people. Moving to new frontiers as humans is necessary today. The guidance of the Lord for our present “great nation” is offered in the Gospel of Matthew. The quality of our love is under development and growth so that we might see others as God sees the people of the psalm with the eyes of love and hope. The Divine eye sees our need to move to being a great nation that is not encumbered with judgement and petty competition about our questionable virtue. We are continuing on the journey of Abram. We are invited to surrender our will to be open to being that “great nation” that is the will of God.