2ND THURSDAY HOMILY OF THE EASTER: YEAR A
HOMILY THEME: MAKING CHRIST OUR CHOICE
BY: Fr. Isaac Awe
Acts 5:27-33, Psalm 34: 2,9,17-20, John 3:31-36
Do our choices lead us towards God or away from God?
“Obedience to God comes before obedience to man” (Acts 5:29) in our first reading of today it is crystal clear that Peter and the apostles chose Christ as their first choice over men. Also, today being the memorial of St Joseph the worker, he also prioritised God above men which means in a nutshell that their choices were right and rewarding.
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Jesus tells his disciples that they can believe the words he speaks because God the Father has poured his Spirit on him in full measure, without keeping anything back. The function of the Holy Spirit is to reveal God’s truth to us. When we receive the Holy Spirit he enables us to recognize and understand God’s truth. Jesus is the Word of God and he gives us his Holy Spirit so that we can recognize his truth and live according to it. God’s truth has consequences and he gives us the freedom to choose how we will respond.
The choice he gives us has eternal consequences, everlasting life or everlasting death. God challenged his people in the Old Covenant: See I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil. …I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life, that you may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying his voice, and cleaving to him” (Deuteronomy 30:15-20).
And he issues the same challenge to the people of the New Covenant today (to us ). Do we weigh the consequences of our choices? Do they lead us towards life or towards death? If we choose to obey God’s voice and to do his will, then we will know and experience that life which comes from God himself. If we choose to follow our own way apart from God and his will, then we choose for death a spiritual death which poisons and then kills the soul until there is nothing left but an empty person devoid of love, truth, goodness, purity, peace, and joy.
PRAYER: Lord Jesus Christ, let your Holy Spirit fill us and transform our hearts and minds that we may choose life in you and with you. And give us the courage and strength to always discern good from evil and to reject everything that is false and contrary to your holy will. Amen
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