Acts 9:1-20 / John 6:52-59
Angry people want to show how powerful they are.
So they will resort to hostile and violent means to threaten and make others submit to them.
They would even ask for authorization letters to justify what they are doing.
Such was the case of Saul in the 1st reading.
He was so bent on killing and slaughtering the Lord’s disciples, and he even got letters from those in authority to show that he was doing the right thing.
Human anger, hostility and violence cannot be stopped by human means.
But where human ability is limited, God will not let evil be unstoppable.
Saul was not only stopped by the power of God; it was also revealed to him that he was persecuting Jesus.
It was love that stopped Saul, and it was also love that spared and saved Saul.
And it is also with love that Jesus gives us His Body to save us and to give us life.
Sin, wickedness and evil can never prevail against the power of God’s love.
In receiving the Body of Christ, we also receive Jesus into our hearts, and we also receive the power of God’s love.
May the power of God’s love in us lead us to do what is good, what is right and what is loving.