Monday, February 8, 2021

5th Week, Ordinary Time, Tuesday, 09-02-2021

Genesis 1:20 -2:4 / Mark 7:1-13       

As the People of God, our spiritual vision should be that we see God in all things and to give thanks to God for all things.

We must see the goodness of God in all things because God created all things good.

We heard in the 1st reading that as God created the earth and all living things, He saw that all is good.

When God created human beings in His image and He saw that it was very good.

God commanded human beings to take care of His creation and to beautify it for His glory.

But when human beings sinned, the relationship between God and man and the relationship between man and creation was also broken.

Sinful humanity began to have vested interests and ulterior motives, and Jesus pointed that out in the gospel when He said that the commandment of God was put aside so as to cling on to human interests.

As God's Chosen People we have this mission to bring humanity back to the state of goodness that God has created.

And we must begin with ourselves, that we see God in all things and to give thanks to God for all things, so that we bear witness to the goodness of God in this world.