31 Jan 2018
Our God is a personal God: he knows each of us by name, and
that’s how he relates to us. We aren’t
just another sheep in the flock. And
that’s the gospel, the good news today.
God knows each of us personally...and we can know him personally.
This is maybe why the Lord was not happy when King David
called for the census of the people.
David turned people into numbers; into faceless, nameless
statistics. And it was a similar problem
in the gospel today: the people had their own ideas of who Jesus was, and they
refused to accept him as the person he is.
God created something very personal when he created the human
race. We aren’t statistics; we’re
persons, with names and identities. And
our God isn’t a nameless God; he is Jesus, Yahweh, Emmanuel,
“God-with-us.” And this is all good
news.
When we’re tempted to feel alone, Jesus is there for us...as
the unfailing Friend he is. When we
pray, we pray from one heart to another—from ours to God’s. And when we see others—in person, on the
internet, in the paper—they are brothers and sisters (even if we forget it
sometimes).
Our God is a personal God, and he created a personal
world. May we enjoy each other’s
company, and remember to share our own self with others. Especially, may we open our heart to God’s
and know we are deeply, personally loved and adored.
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