Main news for 31 October 2016

Strange, is it not? We are used to the fact that heaven and earth, this whole world, the whole universe, are something real, something one can see and show to others, something obviously existing. But words are ephemeral: they sounded and are gone, flew out and flew away. "Words, words, words..."

But Jesus, as always, turns everything upside down. A word, when it proceeds from God, or from the God-man, is not ephemeral. It is more real than any material reality, because it was precisely by the word that this world was brought into existence. The world is created and therefore is not eternal; it has a beginning and an end. But God's word is not created; it is begotten by the Eternal God. It has an eternal nature, does not disappear, and does not remain fruitless.

Therefore, in order that we, who belong to the created world, still may not pass away together with it but may enter eternal life, we need to seek God's word, listen closely to it, receive it, and be permeated by it, becoming like Christ, the Word Incarnate.