Zechariah 8:1-8 / Luke 9:46-50 (2019)
The relationship between God and His people is often liken to that of a romantic relationship between a man and a woman.
But as it was often the case, and as it is often the case still, it is a love relationship that is certainly not love at first sight.
God loves His people and it was He who chose them to be His own.
Yet God's Chosen people was also often portrayed as a woman who scorns this loving and sincere suitor and instead flirts with other men.
But God the suitor does not give up on His beloved and relentlessly continues to go after her and win her heart.
As we heard from the 1st reading from the prophet Zechariah, the Lord God says this: I am burning with jealousy for Zion, with great anger for her sake.
Yes, God still loves His people and wants to win back their hearts even though they have sinned and turned away from the Lord God.
Does all that sound rather incredible and even impossible that God should be like this?
Does it also sound rather incredible and ridiculous that one who has the heart of a child would be the one who is great in the eyes of the Lord?
What is incredible and ridiculous and impossible for us is certainly not for God. We only need to turn back to God in love and then we will realize that nothing is incredible and ridiculous or impossible.