MAN’S LOGIC IS NOT GOD’S LOGIC

…or should we say it the other way round; what God sees is not what man sees; what God knows is not what man knows; what God foresees is not what man foresees; God’s reasons are not man’s reasons … and we can go on forever. So we should not be surprised when Jesus tells us that ‘a grain of wheat must die to produce more’. We do believe that the blood shed by the martyrs have strengthened and confirmed the Church… and are still to this day.

But Christ was not simply daydreaming or imagining things when He declared this, because through His Death and Resurrection, He fulfilled this law of the ‘grain of wheat.’ As a matter of fact in the Eucharist, the Bread of Angels, Christ Himself, truly becomes the hundredfold fruit on which hundreds, thousands, millions, and more, live. But in this mystery of the Eucharist, in which He truly and fully lives for us, He daily asks us to fulfill this law which is the definitive expression of the essence of true love.

And so the essential meaning of ‘love’ can only be that ‘we abandon our narrow and selfish aims, and come out of ourselves,’ and begin to live for others. The formula is easy: Change LOVE into LIVE,  and the ‘I’ is most important letter because it replaces an ‘O’, which is ‘nothing’ a simple ‘zero’. We shall be truly giving value to a ‘nothing’ to a ‘zero’ in love when we replace it with an ‘I’, and live for others. We will be participating in the creative love of God.

A man cannot save himself because of the fact that he is a Christian. But, only if he is Christian for others. Because God wants and expects our services towards others, irrespective of family relationship, skin colour, ideals and beliefs, to create that harmony needed for the building of His Kingdom. We will be building ‘bridges’ between God and man. That is why we are Christians, that is, following in the steps of ‘Christ’.

The danger lies in the complacency of living under the false impression that because we are Christians, even Catholics, our ‘salvation’ is guaranteed. We are committing the same mistake the Jews committed when they used to believe that because they were called ‘the sons of Abraham’, that title gave them the right to enter heaven. We should interpret the state ‘Christianity’ as a way of life for the sake of others. We can take pride in being called ‘sons and daughters of God’, and so are we (that’s a better title than ‘sons of Abraham’), but we have to live as God’s children. That is the responsibility, and commitment of every Christian.