In today’s First Reading Moses is speaking to the Israelites asking them to remember the miracles the Lord has done for them from the very begin- ning. Moses reminds the people that God has never done this for any other nation and therefore they are privileged.

Deuteronomy 4:39 says, “Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.” Today the Lord is asking us to remember the same thing—to remember that the Lord is God above anything we may face and can change everything in an instant.
When God created mankind, He had a vision of the relationship He wanted to have with humankind. However, from the fall of Adam onwards, people kept turning away from God. Even though Moses asked them to remember what the Lord had done for them, they kept forgetting. Generation upon generation forgot what the Lord had done for them and their ancestors. They continued to fall into the thinking of the world. Then they suffered and burned because they went against the commandments of God. Next, they turned back to God and cried out to Him to save them. The Lord would hear their cry and do a miracle and rescue them. This cycle goes on and on in the Old Testament. The Lord sent his messengers to tell people this was not the way to deal with their lives, but the people did not listen to the prophets.

This cycle continued until God decided to send His one and only Son to the earth to save us. He did not want this cycle to continue in our lives. The Lord Jesus was sent to the earth to save us from our sins and reconnect us with God the Father.

However, instead of seeking the Risen Lord and God the Father, we too fall back into the cycle the Israelites of the Old Testament were in. We fall, burn, cry out to God and He saves us through a miracle and then we go back to our previous lives. But God does not want us to live like this. We can move away from this cycle by making the Risen Lord real in our lives. He is not just someone we celebrate on Easter Sunday or Christmas. He is alive and we can interact with Him in our day to day lives. One great way we can make Jesus real in our lives, is by remembering all the things He has done for us. When we remember every answered prayer, we are acknowledging that He is alive in our lives.

Today’s Psalm says, “For the word of the Lord is right and true;he is faithful in all he does.” The Psalmist was able to write this because He knew the Lord. He had a relationship with the Lord. In the same way, the Risen Lord is waiting for each of us to have a relationship with Him. To know Him intimately. In our relationship with the Lord we can find everything we are searching for in the world. He will provide the love we are searching for from the world. He will provide the appreciation and value. He will give us what we are looking for from the world.
In the Second reading, St. Paul explains what will happen to us when we have a relationship with the Lord— divine sonship will become real in our lives. Before, we may have heard that we are sons and daughters of God, but we would not have really felt it in our hearts. But when we know the Lord closely, we will know what it is to be children of God. We will experience this in our lives and call God “Abba Father” and mean it. He will be a Father to us. Not a distant God. He will become as close to us as our parents, spouse or chil- dren. Then when we go through a problem, we will have our God as close to us as any other human person and He will carry us through. He will give us the strength to go through anything. For we will know that when we suffer with God, we will also be victorious with God. The Lord Jesus gives the disciples—and us—a command in today’s Gospel reading. When we know the Lord and have a rela- tionship with Him, He commands us to go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,and teaching them to obey everything the Lord Jesus has commanded us. Each of us, whether we are part of the clergy or laity or whether we are single or married or young or old, we are all called to this mission. Today, the Lord is calling you. He has a special job for you to do in His kingdom. He called you before you were even born. He says in Jeremiah 1:5, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you;

I appointed you a prophet to the nations.” When we sit at the feet of the Lord, He will reveal to us what He has called us for.

Prayer: Abba Father, may I always remember the miracles you have done in my life and may I be able to respond to my mission in the Kingdom of God. Amen.