The one sent by God speaks God’s words, and gives the Spirit unstintingly. The Father loves the Son and has entrusted everything into his hands.
Whoever believes in the Son lives with eternal life; but he who will not believe in the Son will never know life, and always faces the justice of God.”
REFLECTION:
"The ways of God are different from the ways of men”, scripture tells us. (Is. 55:8) And the ways of the world are different from the way of Christ.
The disciples knew this. And so when confronted by the High Priest and his Council, they boldly proclaimed that it was God they obeyed and not men.
In a similar vein, Jesus (speaking to Nicodemus in the Gospel reading) tells him that what is “from above” is different from that which “belongs to the earth”.
They may not always appear so different, but they are nevertheless not the same, and a Christian must always choose God’s way.
Too often, because the ways of the world appear similar or even mimic the way of Christ,
we think that it is possible to simply adopt these and apply them to the manner by which we live our faith.
But while the ways of the world (in relationships, in business, in our day to day affairs) are not always misguided, wrong, or evil,
they remain different from the way of Christ who has told us that we “do not belong” to the world.
Recognizing the difference and acting accordingly is the task of every true believer, every true follower of Christ.
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