The Roman Catholic Lectionary offers a few views of the
nature of God in the texts chosen for today. The First Letter of John presents
three witnesses to Christ as God, the Spirit, water and blood. Audrey West
points out that this Letter is written to believers who are being attacked for
their belief in the humanity and Divinity of Jesus. She points to the Gospel of
John 5:33-37, where Jesus invokes the testimony of His works to support belief
in His Essence. The Spirit which resonates in the indwelling spirit of the
believer shows the Baptism and Cross of Jesus (water and blood) to be witness
to the Divine with us in Jesus flesh. The psalmist praises God who protects and
is strong in the defense of Jerusalem yet is concerned with the life of the
broken and dispossessed. The Gospel of Luke tells of the healing of a leper.
The crowd following Jesus is attracted to Him as One who speaks with great
experience of God and Love. The action of extending healing hands to the unclean
and outcast is the Love in the flesh. Our witness of the life of Christ in the
world today is the joy, peace and healing we bring as we extend a hand to those
who break into our journey to bring their lives into ours.
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