[ Today's Readings ]
There is nothing that can keep us from being used by God to build his kingdom unless we let it. Even though he is perfect light and we still have darkness within our hearts we still qualify. The darkness does indeed act as a barrier. But the reason Jesus comes is to cleanse us from all sin so that we may be in the light with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Before we are even created God knows we will choose to sin. Even then Jesus plans to be an Advocate and an expiation for us.
Even little children, too small to make a conscious decision for Christ still bear witness to his truth.
He ordered the massacre of all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity
two years old and under,
in accordance with the time he had ascertained from the magi.
The Holy Innocents would seem too small to be of use to Jesus. But they give testimony as martyrs. Their very lives proclaim that Jesus is king. Their deaths give evidence that Herod is not truly a king. He is acting falsely to protect what is not truly his own. Herod tries to defend what is not truly his and fails. But nothing spent for the Kingdom is wasted. Even the loss of these tiny lives is a temporary tragedy, a momentary prelude before they enter heaven to rejoice and play forever around the throne of God.
So let us never believe that we are too small or contain too much darkness to serve Jesus and to make him known. God can use us as surely as he uses Joseph. As with Joseph, all we need to do is listen and obey.
Joseph rose and took the child and his mother by night
and departed for Egypt.
We can do obey with complete trust, knowing that our efforts for the King are never wasted.
Our soul has been rescued like a bird from the fowler’s snare.
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