1 John 4:19 - 5:4 / Luke 4:14-22
God created us in His image and likeness. It means that He created us with His love and in His love.
He also created each of us unique, so that as much as we have a lot in common as human beings, we are also unique in our own way.
And each of us also has a unique mission in our life and that will be our contribution to the good of humanity.
In the gospel, we heard that Jesus, with the power of the Spirit in Him, returned to Galilee, and His reputation spread throughout the countryside.
When He went to the synagogue and stood up to read, He read this from the scroll of the prophet Isaiah: "The Spirit of the Lord has been given to me"
Jesus knew what He had been given, and with that, what He had to do as His mission.
We too have been given the Spirit of love. As the 1st reading says: We are to love because God loved us first.
We are to carry out the mission of love in our lives and we can only do it with the power of the Holy Spirit.
Let us ask the Holy Spirit to guide us in our mission of love so that as much as our way of loving is different from each other, God's love will be experienced by all.