Do you dare to believe his promise?

 

“LORD, THAT I MAY SEE.”

A SHORT COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF THE DAY.

Gospel

Mark 1:14-20

I will make you into fishers of men

1.      After John had been arrested,

2.      Jesus went into Galilee.

3.      There he proclaimed the Good News from God.

4.      ‘The time has come’ he said

5.      ‘and the kingdom of God is close at hand.

6.      Repent,

7.      and believe the Good News.’

8.      As he was walking along by the Sea of Galilee he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net in the lake –

9.      for they were fishermen.

10. And Jesus said to them, ‘Follow me

11. and I will make you into fishers of men.’

12. And at once they left their nets and followed him.

13. Going on a little further, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John;

14. they too were in their boat, mending their nets.

15. He called them at once and,

16. leaving their father Zebedee in the boat with the men he employed,

17. they went after him.

 

What is the Good News? First it is good – it will bring joy, happiness, and peace. Second it is news – something personal and something we didn’t know. Something is going to happen to us.

 

What is it? God loves you and me with an infinite love.  What does this mean? It means that he wants to do anything for our good, anything for what is the very best for us. This is his only desire for us. He wants us as his beloved children.

 

He wants to share his life with us as his beloved sons and daughters along with his only Son and the Holy Spirit. This is his promise.

 

Who made the promise to us? It is Jesus, who guaranteed it by freely dying on the Cross for us and even now giving us the Holy Spirit in our hearts.

 

Can you believe it? Can you believe it with all your heart and soul?

If you do, then you will live only to gain the fulfilment of the promise. It will change every moment of your life.

 

It calls for a change in the way you think. You will see sin as destructive and depriving you of the promise. You will open your mind to the Word of God in the Scriptures and live by what it teaches us there. You will no longer live for yourself but for the God who created you and came into this world as a human being to tell you this Good News and call you to share in its promise.

 

Can you dare to believe and follow? Some do like Peter, Andrew, James, and John. It takes courage to give up our old way of thinking and listen to Jesus and then follow him only.

 

But Jesus guarantees the promise by the love, joy, and peace we receive even now.