Lenten Reflection # 01: Jesus Christ is our Ransom...
Bapa Eliseo "Jun" Mercado, OMI
#Badaliyya-Philippines
The celebration of LENT is to remember the narratives of the PRICE Jesus paid that we may have life...
• He experienced the betrayal by one of his own …
• He found himself all alone before the powers of the
world – State and Ecclesiastical…
• The Custodians of the Law and the Covenant
condemned him to die…
• The power of this world washed its hands and gave
him away to be flogged and crucified…
• He was abandoned in his utter powerlessness and
weakness…
• He died on the Cross as a RANSOM/BADAL for our
sinfulness.!
Jesus was steadfast in his obedience to the will of his Father… He embraced, albeit with fear and trembling, the consequences of his decision to pay the PRICE that we may live and live to the full.
Jesus is raised by the Father!
In Jesus’ Resurrection, our God is revealed…
• Our God is NOT the all powerful one, but the God
who loves and who is willing to pay the price that we
may have life.
• Our God is NOT the all victorious one, but the God
who is courageous to rise up in every fall and always
ready to pick up the pieces and begin anew.
• Our God is the bread broken and shared and the
blood shed to free us from the tyranny of sin and the
evil in our heart.
• Our God brings to fulfillment the covenant
established with our fathers in faith - Abraham, Isaac
& Jacob.
Go and tell the whole world, the Good News that Jesus who died for us is truly RISEN!
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