Today’s Reflection: What’s your relationship with God?

By Charles Muchiri

March 25, 2012

Fifth Sunday of Lent

Readings for Mass

First Reading: Jeremiah 31: 31-34

Responsorial Psalms: Psalms 51: 3-4, 12-13, 14-15

Second Reading: 2 Hebrew 5: 7-9

Gospel: John 12: 20-33

 This being the Fifth Sunday of Lent, we are all called to reflect on the state of our relationship with our God.

The first reading has it all; God has this passion that He be our God, and that we be His very own people.

He wishes to renew the relationship between Him and us, to go back to what it was meant to be at the creation of the world, before Adam and Eve sinned.

Even today, we have continued to fall short of God’s ways. And for the many times that we have gone astray, in our thoughts, in our words, in our commissions and in our omissions, God is still calling us back to Himself with the same kind of passion as written by Prophet Jeremiah, He wishes to be our God, and that we be His people.

And that is exactly the reason why He didn’t spare His very own Son, Jesus Christ, just so that His wish to have a reconciled relationship between Him and the mankind, may come true.

In today’s Gospel, we encounter a Christ who now faces the ultimate thing that brought Him on earth: His persecution and eventual death at the cross.

At this very hour, Christ may have changed His mind; or sought to have a less painful way of saving mankind from sin; He had all the heavenly powers by His side.

But He opts to obey. And through His obedience, we are redeemed – and preciously so – through His blood at the Calvary.

Here is the question thus; what’s the status of the relationship between us and God? Does this relationship enjoy the redemption that we received through the cross, or is it still bended towards sin? Towards all that the worldly pleasures can offer? Towards our concupiscences?

If only we turn to God now! If only we seek for His mercies at this hour! If only we ask Him to create in us a clean heart, and a renewed, steadfast spirit within us!

Only then, will we fulfill God’s wish, to have Him as our God and to really be His people, through the death and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ!

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