Isaiah 35:1-10 / Luke 5:17-26
To be deeply hurt emotionally is really painful.
Added to that hurt is the trauma of the experience.
That is why to forgive is easier said than done.
Maybe that was why the scribes and Pharisees said that Jesus was blaspheming when He told the paralysed man that his sins are forgiven.
For the scribes and Pharisees, no one can forgive sins but God alone.
In their minds, God cannot be hurt or be traumatized by some evil-doing.
But when God became man in the person of Jesus Christ, He took all of the sins of humanity to Himself.
In Jesus Christ, God forgave humanity of the evil of sin.
During this Advent season, let us ponder deeply on the forgiveness of God.
In forgiving our sins, God is also healing us.
May we go for the Sacrament of Reconciliation, so that in being forgiven, we will be healed, and then we will be able to forgive others.