We all know what joy it brings to have guests visit our
home, especially visitors that are important and special. We all know how
exciting it can be when a famous person visits our town. We all know how people
talk around town when a famous and important person is seen in our
neighborhood. So we can imagine just how excited the crowd was after Jesus
brought a young man back to life. They said, “A great prophet has risen among
us. God has visited His people.” (Luke 7.16)
And we also know just how much work is required for that special
visitor. Even if we haven’t personally hosted a special guest in town, just
based upon what it takes to host a guest in our home, we can expect how much
work is involved in hosting such a special visitor. So we also can imagine
another reaction to Jesus when, “fear seized them all.”
It is a huge responsibility to host any visitor, let alone
God, but the joy of hosting and being honored by such a guest, far outweighs
the burden. If we can understand this about how the crowd reacted to God’s
visit, maybe we can bring ourselves to have the same reaction to Him. Maybe we
can express the joy and awe that the crowd experienced when they were visited
by God.
Why????????????Because He visits our Church during EVERY
Liturgy.
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