On earth, God messed it up all !

 Before the Word incarnated, the Creator is present in his creation – the earth and the unfathomed universe that is beyond the human imagination. God is in the world, alive and active, with the Spirit’s Power hovering over and in everything. Integrally, God is with the universe, involved with the world he created. God is in all things “by essence, presence, and power” (Thomas Aquinas). God cares for every bit of his creation – the Panchabhoota – air, water, soil, heat and the ether. We see his active presence in nature, in human history. God is One and All in all. God IS.

We  are meant to “read the signs of the time,” to look at the world with eyes, hear what it  says with ears, taste all that is palatable and that which not to our taste, see what is happening, and unlike physiologist, philosopher and politician, be particularly attentive to the happenings around, - to the things of God.

The Earth and all of creation await being set free from “corruption and share in the glorious freedom of the children of God” (Rom 8: 22). Creation itself witnesses to God. “Even before revealing himself to man in words of truth, God reveals himself to him through the universal language of creation […] the order and harmony of the cosmos” (Wis 13:5). From the naturally organized beauty of created things we perceive the Creator (CCC 2500). We encounter this God within his creation that continually evolves.

About this natural order and of human behaviour, Jesus says, “When you see a cloud rising in the west you say immediately that it is going to rain–and so it does; and when you notice that the wind is blowing from the south you say that it is going to be hot–and so it is. You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky; why do you not know how to interpret the present time? Why do you not judge for yourselves what is right?”  And therefore, we have to do the right thing.

Jesus incarnated into this created world,  for thirty years he lived a normal simple life in small family, and was baptized in a marshy muddy Jordan, to be meshed up with the world and its ups and down, with all its imperfection. Living in this imperfect world, Jesus said to his disciples: “I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing! […] Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. […] a son against his father, a mother against her daughter and a daughter against her mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law” (Lk 12:49-51). God in Jesus had the desire to spread eternal life filled with kindled love among human beings, in each family. God-Incarnate wants all humanity to be baptized with the Holy Spirit and fire. Jesus came to light the world with divine love in order to experience the inner life of God. All are called to be bearers of the divine life, a spreaders of the fire of truth and love.

Christ, the ‘sign of contradiction’, wants to establish peace in the midst of division, through justice, truth and equality – which only can bring peace. Peace can come only through living in that truth. Relational conflicts and divisions occur when truth is rejected. It is a challenge that God has set before us: to set the world on fire of love. Knowing the signs of time, we continue working for justice that brings peace by applying our judgment to reality, “respecting the transcendent dignity of mankind” (CCC 1929). We are all called to live “according to their nature and their vocation” (CCC 1928), practising Social justice. This same duty is extended to those who think or act differently from us” (CCC 1933).