Jumat, 12 Mei 2017

Creation is A Sign of Hope

Creation has often suffered because of humanity's sins and failings, stressing that we must take care of it because as Christians, we see signs of hope in Christ's Resurrection in nature everyday.

We are still struggling with the consequences of our sin and everything around us still bears the mark of our efforts, of our shortcomings, our closures.

At the same time, however, we know that they are saved by the Lord and already we are given to contemplate and anticipate in ourselves and in the world around us signs of the Resurrection, Easter, which operates a new creation.

God has entrusted creation to us as a gift that can draw us closer to Him, even if our selfishness and sin has contributed to its destruction. Creation is a wonderful gift that God has placed in our hands that we may enter into a relationship with Him and we can recognize the imprint of His loving plan, the achievement of which we are all called to work toward together, day after day. But when we get caught up in our selfishness, we ruin even the most beautiful things entrusted to us and so it happened for creation.

With the tragic experience of sin, broken fellowship with God, we have broken the original communion with everything around us and we ended up corrupting creation, thus making it a slave, submissive to our frailty.

We see the consequence of this before us every day, pointing to water as an example. Water is beautiful, water is important, water is life, yet we have helped to destroy creation by contaminating water. But the Lord does not leave us alone. All creation is groaning in labour pains even until now.

If we pay attention to creation and to ourselves, we will see that we are all groaning, just like a woman experiencing labour pains, and this is because the Holy Spirit is working within us.

These groans are the cries of those who suffer, who are waiting for the recreation of the world. Because we live in the world, we see signs of evil, selfishness and sin both in ourselves and in what surround us. But at the same time, as Christians we also have learned to see the world through the eyes of Easter, with the eyes of the Risen Christ.

That is why this is a time of waiting, a time of longing: we have hope in our knowledge that the Lord wants to permanently heal our wounded hearts with His Mercy and in this way, regenerate a new world and a new humanity, finally reconciled in His Love.

We can often be tempted by pesimism, by disappointment. However, we find solace the Holy Spirit, breath of our hope, which keeps alive the groaning and the expectation of our hearts.

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