God Comes When We Need God Most
2023년 12월 24일God Comes When We Need God Most
< Fourth Sunday of Advent >
On the darkest hour of the darkest day, when lust for power corrupted the best and people willingly traded their souls for the right to rule and ride roughshod over the foreigner, the poor, the Other, it is then, always then, that holy Wisdom explodes silently upon an unsuspecting world. The Great Divider, undeterred, sets rich against poor, the well-fed against the hungry, neighbor against neighbor, and one’s enemy is within one’s home. The Great Deceiver upends the world declaring evil good and good bad, calling truth lies and lies worthy of belief, displacing, wherever possible, even God.
Somewhere in a distant land subdued and oppressed by those who kill and plunder in the name of God, a Child was born in the fullness of time. No amount of lights and ornaments can disguise or conceal injustice, nor dispel despair, instead all weapons and wars are reduced to silence at the sound of a newborn baby, nursing at the mother’s breast. Good Christian, take heart! On this day peace is born, mercy flows, love abounds as surely as they did so long ago! For though latter-day Herods continue to threaten and destroy innocence, God Almighty and Most Merciful comes to us, not when we are ready, but when we need God most.