A worthy preparation means that we also know really who is coming...
Preparations for the messiah...
Is the preparation of sufficient quality
Do we really know him? Will we recognise him if he is among us?
What must we do? the people asked John the Baptist
He was voice crying out in the wilderness,
"Prepare the way for the Lord"
He warned about the axe and winnowing fan
to look deeply into the reality of our treasures...
with a sincere heart in absolute trust,
having our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience.
Following all the commandments from childhood,
one young man asked Jesus:
"What must I do to inherit the joy of God?"
He was sincere in his question,
and so was his emptiness after having followed the Law.
Why was there no joy of God born in his heart?
Why was there no joy of God born in his heart?
It is a distance by option.
We can stop at what gives us a clean face,
where we would have already received the reward.
Scribes knew the Scripture,
they knew how to take advantage of it too,
yet they lost the messiah.
Preparations for the messiah...
Is the preparation of sufficient quality?
After knowing every verse of the scripture so well...
Do we really know him? Will we recognise him?
In Micah's words, "what does the Lord ask of you, but to act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly before the Lord?"
It challenges our nominal performances, and put us into a bond where the Word has to become a living and accompanying presence than a text; a voice crying out in the human conscience. There we have the sense "your Word is a lamp to my steps, and light to my path."
they knew how to take advantage of it too,
yet they lost the messiah.
Preparations for the messiah...
Is the preparation of sufficient quality?
After knowing every verse of the scripture so well...
Do we really know him? Will we recognise him?
In Micah's words, "what does the Lord ask of you, but to act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly before the Lord?"
It challenges our nominal performances, and put us into a bond where the Word has to become a living and accompanying presence than a text; a voice crying out in the human conscience. There we have the sense "your Word is a lamp to my steps, and light to my path."
It opens the eyes of the blind, and the deaf begin to hear in sincere heart and absolute trust, having our hearts cleaned from an evil conscience.
This guiding presence is an inner strength, source of joy;
for a person, for a community, and for a family
God is in our midst,
I (we) stand amidst my (our) struggles;
God rejoices over me (us) with gladness,
he renews me (us) in his love;
he dances with joy as on a day of festival,
and he exults over me (us) with loud singing.
Zeph 3: 18, Is 42: 7, Ps 119: 105, Heb 10: 22, Mic 6:8, Lk 3: 10
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