THE WORD OF GOD IS ALIVE AND ACTIVE
 
This Sunday we are called to reflect about the Word of God. There is power in spoken word. Word can build up or tear down. Word can bring joy or bring pain. Word can motivate and inspire, word can build character and personality. Although some people exploits the power of word and use it to push others to do something wrong.

The word of God inspires us to live right and do good. Psalm 119:105 “Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.” The word of God is so powerful that it carries the power of life. Hebrews 4:12 teaches us how powerful the word of God is, “Indeed, the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even between soul and spirit, joint and marrow, and able to discern reflections and thoughts of our hearts.” The word of God has the power to penetrate our hearts, giving us life and transforming us. Jesus teaches us that, “human beings lives not by bread alone but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.” We survive and thrive by the blessings from the mouth of God. Through his word, God dialogues with us, we come to understand ourselves and we discover answers to our heart’s deepest questions. The scripture teaches us that Jesus is the fulfillment of the word the of God. Jesus told his disciples in the gospel, “That everything written about me in the law of Moses and in the prophets and psalms must be fulfilled.” Jesus is the word made flesh. Jn 1:1; 14. “In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. And the word became flesh and dwell among us.” Jesus dwells among us and manifest himself in so many ways to us, especially, through the scriptures and the Eucharist. The gospel of this Sunday shares with us the different ways Jesus made himself known to his disciples and to us. Jesus made himself known through his physical appearance in his glorious body. This is to point to us that we shall be transformed into our own glorious body like Jesus. A perfect body. A body that will last for eternity. 

Jesus made himself known to his disciples in the breaking of bread. Jesus, alive and risen from the dead shares a meal with his disciples. We join Jesus at meal at each mass.. He shares with us an intimate relationship through the Eucharist. He wants us to touch him in the Eucharist and in touching him, he establishes a deep connection with us. In the Eucharist Jesus leaves his everlasting presence in our life and in the church. “anyone who eats my body and drink my blood lives in me and I in him.” He lives in us and we live in him.
Jesus made know himself through the scriptures. He opened their minds to understand the scriptures. At every mass Jesus connects with us through the scriptures. He opens our minds and sets our hearts on fire, he inspires us and transforms us just as he did with his disciples on the road to Emmaus.  At mass, we hear the Word of God spoken directly and personally to each of us. God touches us individually through his word. With all life uncertainties, fears, stress and always in search of peace, which we sometimes try to find in people or material things. The true peace can only be found in Christ alone. The Eucharist and the word of God is so connected that the church nourishes us spiritually at the twofold table of God’s word and of the Eucharist.