Ezekiel (17.22-24) says: You all have to know:
it's the Lord-Jahwe who plants the cedar...
who makes the low grow...
who makes the withered green... it's the Lord-Jahwe !
Ezekiel's message: "God is at work".
Until today, the most people in the world are convinced: "God is at work".
But we have a modern problem: If you see God as good, "benevolens", as LOVE
or as "Fulness of Life" - then you feel good that "God is at work" and you like to
represent such a "God at work; and it's good to experience people, who aktualize such a "God at work". If you see God as revenge, as the one who punish, as jealous, as dictator - you are in trouble to see this "God at work" and you fear the people who present such a "God at work".
The reaction to the Ezekiel-message depends upon your IMAGE of God.
Therefore again pls note:we (many of us) have to refresh, to renew, to refind an "IMAGE of God" for our time. Jesus has done the same: to bring a new "IMAGE of God!" "God is at work" - thats fine - the Question remains: which kind of God
do you see at work ????
2. Cor 5.6-10 (Paulus): It doesn't matter, whether we are living in the body or exiled from it, in every case, we are intent on pleasing HIM. And each of us will get what he deserves for the thing he did in the body (good or bad). Paulus is very confident of the fact that the Christian life-style of everone of us is a pleasure for God.
Mk 4.26-34 Jesus has many parable to show us "the Kingdom of God" (KoG):
cf. the mustard seed / the working soil... but today there is also an interesting question: What new parable can WE find for "KoG" ???
It's high time to find new parables in order to understand better the message of
"KoG". There is an old proposal: Make yourself a parable of the KoG. Our lifestyle may present the KoG for people with eyes.
[In our RCC of Namibia we remain in Liturgy and Pastoral using the old parable and
the old language - maybe the young people will not understand us anymore].
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