Jesus went on to tell them the truth about Himself and His relationship with the Father, of which He as the Son and the Father are One and the same.
So, to be a true disciple of Jesus, one must take to heart all that Jesus has said, especially the commandments of loving and serving one another.
In the first reading from the Acts of the Apostles, the Paul and Barnabas both realized that the good that they are doing is attributed to them, by the people of Lystra wrongly, instead of to the one, true God. All the attempts by Paul and Barnabas to communicate to the people they are only human, and instruments of God work and not God fell on deaf ear.
Like Paul and Barnabas, we should always have it at the back of our minds that God alone deserves all the glory and praise. We are God’s handiwork.
Hence, it is our work to make God known to the world. We (the Church) have what our world needs. Our world needs God. Jesus calls us the Light of the world.
The Easter message continues to resound “God loves the world”.
Today, Jesus asked us to love Him.
Saint Francis taking about the sacrificial love of Jesus for us beautifully wrote “The Cross of Jesus Christ is the greatest love story ever told. Can we share that love story?
Finally, we make the words of the Psalmist ours “Not to us, O Lord, but to your name give the glory” (Psalm 115.)
Have a wonderful week
