Today as the gospel was being read, there was an interesting feeling of unity with God's whole church: something very special happened on that day when Jesus read the section from Isaiah 6 and proclaimed that it had been fulfilled. He went on to do just as it said:
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor.He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind,to set the oppressed free,19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
Often we may share some food with the poor, and perhaps tel them about God, but do we also seek to assist them out of a life of poverty? We love to support the poor, over there, but do we look for the impoverished among us to assist? Or do we realize how poor we make ourselves by allowing too much bad news to creep into our minds and speech. Perhaps we must first start by sharing the good news with one another to end the poverty inside us, that we humbly admit we have.
We love those who go into jails to proclaim the freedom Christ brings to those who are imprisoned While we also allow ourselves to be imprisoned to our favorite tv shows and keeping up with others on facebook. When is the last time we allowed God to captivate us as much as our favorite show? (Some translations read set the captives free.)
Have we really recovered our sight enough to see the remaining sin in our lives we were blinded by before Christ? Do we not see the sick and suffering, poor and needy around us? Or have we become blind where we once had sight? Have we allowed Jesus to regenerate us so that we can see in the first place?
Are we helping the oppressed get free? Do we share with them that there is freedom in Christ? Or do we oppress them just the same with classism and culturalism? Are we oppressing ourselves by not believing we too are anointed and can stun others as we engage Jesus' mission in our lives. Today is the day!
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