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Sabato 30 Novembre 2024

St Andrew, apostle

Word for today
The Gospel of Matthew 4:18-22

Fishermen

The Garden of Eden was an ocean of light and love where all people could live in peace, beauty, harmony, completely immersed in the womb of God, the Father and Creator. It is in this ocean of love that Lucifer began to fish for men and caught them in his net. All those people who Lucifer was unable to catch remained in God's ocean. For those men and women who believed in the evil one's deception and let themselves be fished by him, the Father Creator provided an opportunity to review their choices and to freely return to the ocean of divine love through a temporary earthly experience.
On planet earth the prince is Lucifer, and his dominion is realized through all forms of power, might, sovereignty, supremacy, hegemony; the men and women who do not humbly accept to be fished by God for divine life in Jesus' love and light unfortunately, remain in the evil one's pond caught in his net. God knows as no one else that the men and women who will not be caught by Jesus and by all that Jesus insipres such as love, harmony, justice, peace, knowledge and beauty will, unfortunately, have already been caught by someone else. Jesus pitched his tent among men, became incarnate, visited the earth to offer the power of his wisdom through the procedures of the Gospel and the power of His heart. Why did He do all this? To catch every man and woman and to bring them back to God, to bring everyone to the ocean of light of God's peace. That is why Jesus gave to community of his disciples the task of fishing men, to bringing them back to the ocean of God's love and light. What task is more important on earth than catching for God those men and women who have let themselves be caught by Satan's deception? But we cannot follow Jesus' loving mandate any way we like; we need to do it in God's way.     
In the ocean of Eden's love, Satan drew people to himself through the force of deception; in the experience of planet earth, Jesus' friends, in God's name, can catch men for love only and exclusively in the name and with the force of freedom. 
On earth the most dangerous way of betraying Jesus' mandate, that is catching men for God, is not betraying that mandate, but not performing it in accordance with God's way. According to God's way, it is not possible to catch men for God through deception, coercion, persuasion, obligation, repression, oppression, fear, blackmail, threat, or violence. The fishermen of men who act in the name of and for God can do it only and exclusively using the fishing line of inspiration. Inspiring, inspiring, inspiring humanity is the task of Jesus' disciples.