Connected

 

I was looking a homily posted in The Cavalier Chronicle on Page 7, dated 12/14/2022. It was from the 1992 Revised Common Lectionary for Sunday, (12/18/2022); its title was Close To Thee. I wrote it out and then will comment on it.: “God gave us Jesus to save us from our sins. God came to us in human form. We can understand God now. We’ve seen God. We also know God understands what it’s like to be us. Here about Emmanuel, God with us, this week in church. God is with us. Matthew 1:18-25.”

 

My response: It amazes me how a few words written down 2,000 years ago could be so rich with ideas and implication. Let us go through it line by line. My take is not exhaustive but is what occurs to me as I read these passages.

 

God gave us Jesus to save us from our sins. God the Father, exists, and he sends Jesus, the Messiah and Chosen One, to die on the cross for all of humankind’s sins, opening the way to heave so all that answer the call to live in Christ can be saved. This is one of the most positive, optimistic, divine gestures made by God to humans, that if we will be spiritually and morally as noble as we can be, the way to heaven is open, if we seek after it.

 

God the Father and Jesus want people to be able to get to heaven.

 

God came to us in human form. I believe that, that this spiritual divinity, the Son of God, was able to take on human form as Jesus Christ. After he died on the cross for our sins, he was resurrected by the Father, going from his human worldly self to his divine, spiritual self.

 

We accept this on faith, but think what we would know if scientists knew the principles of going to human from divine and then back to divine status. Wow. Talk about scientific advancement.

 

Humans are worldly and biological, and, when we die, we have a chance to be angels or spirits. Apparently, angels and humans are able to travel back and forth between earth and heaven, so this might explain why psychics sometimes report seeing angles walking around among us, angels walking among the humans.

 

We can understand God now. We’ve seen God now. God can now enter our world completely, and we, to some degree, know God’s nature and world too.

 

God is with us That is most reassuring.