Living
St. Vincent Deacon, Martyr
2 Samuel 5:1-7,10
Mark 3:22-30
LET THY HAND, O GOD! GUIDE ME.
During much of his public ministry, Our Lord seems to have sought to play down His true identity. Sometimes he urges silence and other times when confronted by others. As He continue to spread God’s saving work, it seems to have annoyed the Pharisees to the point that rather than give glory to God who has wrought such wonders in casting out a devil, they accused Jesus of using the power of Satan Beezebul -the prince of devils to cast out the devil.
Our Christian faith is based on a love-relationship with God. From this love, our actions towards others flow. From this love flows our non-judgemental attitude towards others. Into this love, happiness enters from God and flows from us to others. Jesus mentions that his power rests in the finger of God that is, the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
Pope Benedict XVI addressing the audience at the ANGELUS on St Peter’s Square on Sunday, 27 January 2008 mentions that “ God reigns in the world through his Son made man and with the power of the Holy Spirit who is called “the finger of God” (Lk 11: 20). Wherever Jesus goes the Creator Spirit brings life, and men and women are healed of diseases of body and spirit.
God’s lordship is thus manifest in the human being’s integral healing. By this, Jesus wanted to reveal the Face of the true God, the God who is close, full of mercy for every human being; the God who makes us a gift of life in abundance, his own life.”
Fr Joseph Osho
