I came from the Father and have come into the world

SATURDAY 23 MAY (Jn 16,23-28)

Jesus comes out of the Father with his incarnation. In truth, he does not go out of the Father, because he and the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, subsist in the only divine nature. He took on the flesh. From God that he is, he became true man, remaining true God. It is the revealed truth that He is always in the bosom of the Father. Never might he be separated from it. This divine and human truth is admirably contained in the Prologue of the Gospel according to John:  “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came to be through him, and without him nothing came to be. What came to be through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth. From his fullness we have all received, grace in place of grace. No one has ever seen God. The only Son, God, who is at the Father’s side, has revealed him” (Cf. Jn 1,1-18). With the incarnation the Eternal Person of the Word, or of the Son of the Most High, of the Only Begotten of the Father, also exists in human nature. Human nature is not in the sky. It is on earth. It is not in eternity. It is in time. With the death of Jesus and his glorious resurrection, his human nature, transformed into spirit and clothed in glory, immortality and incorruptibility, will also be taken to eternity and will sit at the right hand of the Father.

Confessing this truth, that is, that Jesus is the Incarnate God for our redemption and salvation, is the way so that we don’t die in our sins. For faith in this truth the Father gives us justification and eternal life, on condition that we persevere in faith and walk with perfect obedience in this eternal, divine and human truth of his Eternal Word. That is how Jesus speaks to the Jews: “He said to them again, “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.” So the Jews said, “He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, ‘Where I am going you cannot come’?” He said to them, “You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world. That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I AM, you will die in your sins.” So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “What I told you from the beginning. I have much to say about you in condemnation. But the one who sent me is true, and what I heard from him I tell the world.” They did not realize that he was speaking to them of the Father. So Jesus said (to them), “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me. The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him” (Jn 8,21-29). Jesus is not only eternal light from eternal light, true eternal God from true eternal God, who is the Father, in the Holy Spirit. He is also from his divine and eternal will. As a true man He teaches us how, in the Holy Spirit, we must obey the Father in all his desires, words, will, and command. His every Word and work are Word and work that the Father utters and carries out through him.

On that day you will not question me about anything. Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in my name he will give you. Until now you have not asked anything in my name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete. “I have told you this in figures of speech. The hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in figures but I will tell you clearly about the Father. On that day you will ask in my name, and I do not tell you that I will ask the Father for you. For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have come to believe that I came from God. I came from the Father and have come into the world. Now I am leaving the world and going back to the Father.”

The time has come for Jesus to carry out all the Father’s will. His passion, death and resurrection is the highest, highest and true revelation of his Father, in the Holy Spirit. Seeing Jesus Crucified, the Apostles know how great Jesus’ love for the Father is. On the other hand, seeing the risen Jesus they will know how great the Father’s love for Jesus is. The life of Jesus is all revelation of the Father.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints, arrange that the Christian’s life is the revelation of Christ Jesus.