Main news for 7 February 2007

Every person wants to receive something good from God, and usually asks for this. That is, he asks for grace, because the word "grace" means "a good gift." The apostle Paul writes that God has already given this good gift of His; He has given His Son, the best He has. And the Son has accomplished the main good that we need, even if we do not realize it: salvation. This is liberation from the inertia of evil and sin in our life; this is the filling of life with goodness and love. And this good is extended to "all people." Why then, in all the two thousand years after the coming of Christ, is there so much darkness, pain, and horror in the world? Has the grace of God appeared or not?

It did appear, but how far it was received... The Light came into the world, but people loved darkness. All people? Thank God, no. And these two thousand years have given astonishing examples of holiness. And our task is not to look at how things are with other people, but ourselves to receive and keep receiving the grace offered to us, the outstretched hand of Christ, who wants and is ready to pull us out of the bog of sin and death that is sucking us in.