Choose to trust the promise to Abraham

Paul exhorts the Romans and us today in the texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary to have the trust of Abraham in God that the promise of a relationship with the Divine through Jesus Christ will be our becoming righteous before God. The canticle is from the Benedictus or the Song of Zechariah in praise of God over the birth of his son, John the Baptist who will herald a mighty Saviour who will remember the Covenant and the oath sworn to Abraham. We are called by our baptismal vows to choose to be the prophet today who makes the experience of the realization of the promise of an intimate relationship with God through Jesus Christ and the resonance of the Holy Spirit with the indwelling Spirit evident in our society. The Gospel selection today is a parable where Jesus tells the tragic story of the rich man who was led away from a spiritual relationship by over concern for material wealth. His choice was to be a prophet of the good life which results from attention to wealth management. We have recent evidence that such devotion to wealth puts you in the 1% who are being shown as those who have been lead astray by greed which has had very negative consequences for the other 99%. The grain barns will tumble down but the Promise to Abraham is eternally available to those who trust and are justified by Faith.