For this purpose I have been sent

Col 1,1-8; Ps 51; Lk 4,38-44
4 SEPTEMBER

Man thinks of God from his heart, his thoughts, his will and his desires. He wished a God at his disposal day and night to solve all the problems of his humanity, imbued with vice, sin, idolatry, immorality, superstition, every disobedience and transgression of the Commandments. He does not want to solve them in the manner of God, but in the manner of men. God wants man in his Law and his Will. Man wants God in his sin according to his desire and his expectations, his earthly hopes. God wants to bring man into his sky. Man wants to bring God to his land, to the things of this world. If this on the part of man is valid for his Lord and Creator, it is also valid for all the envoys of God and his ministers, for the Church and every divine institution of God, including the sacraments of true salvation. Man wants to bring everything into his humanity made of earth, to feed himself on earth, which is bad and evil. Even morality, charity, justice, the Word and the Gospel, he wants to drag into his human thoughts. Today, this is the frightening chasm that separates us from our God and Lord. Everything must be brought into our world according to the rules of the world. We want to use all the supernatural for the natural, rather than using the natural to rise into the supernatural and being transformed from natural beings into spiritual creatures, through the power of the Holy Spirit and the grace of Christ the Lord.

Jesus has a divine mission to live. It originates in the heart of the Father. The heart of the Father has only one desire for every man: that he abandons the kingdom of darkness and enters the kingdom of light, leaves idolatry and returns to true worship, stops following darkness and falsehood and lives of light and truth. He frees himself from the slavery of sin and death and becomes eternal life. In eternal life he can enter with every kind of body. He can live as a leper, blind, dumb, deaf, crippled, paralyzed and plagued. But he cannot live with sin. This is why Jesus is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. With sin one does not enter into eternal life. First, sin must be removed with repentance, conversion, faith in the Word of Jesus and immersion in the waters of baptism and then one can live of eternal life. Instead, man wants to use Christ in the sin of the soul, in the vice of the body, but to free the body from all sickness, suffering, danger and difficulty. Man wants a healthy body leaving the soul damned. Jesus wants a holy soul in a crucified body. Man wants to use Jesus exclusively for the good of his body. Instead, Jesus wants to serve man to the exclusive service of the salvation of his soul. Here is his thought: “What good is it to a man if he gains the whole world and then loses his soul?” We must reflect.

After he left the synagogue, he entered the house of Simon. Simon’s mother-in-law was afflicted with a severe fever, and they interceded with him about her. He stood over her, rebuked the fever, and it left her. She got up immediately and waited on them. At sunset, all who had people sick with various diseases brought them to him. He laid his hands on each of them and cured them. And demons also came out from many, shouting, “You are the Son of God.” But he rebuked them and did not allow them to speak because they knew that he was the Messiah. At daybreak, Jesus left and went to a deserted place. The crowds went looking for him, and when they came to him, they tried to prevent him from leaving them. But he said to them, “To the other towns also I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God, because for this purpose I have been sent.” And he was preaching in the synagogues of Judea.

The crowds want to keep Jesus so that he cares for their sick. Jesus tells them that he must go elsewhere. His mission is not to cure the body, but to preach the Gospel for the salvation and redemption of every man and for liberation from sin. Jesus never lets himself be tempted either by Satan or by men. He knows what God’s will is for his life and obeys it with all his heart, strength, spirit, soul and with conviction of pure faith in the Holy Spirit. Knowing God’s will on us is necessary if we want to overcome temptation. Without the knowledge of the Lord’s will, falling into temptation is more than easy. Indeed we are already in temptation.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, make us obedient to the whole will of God on our life.