FIRST READING Proverbs 8: 22-31. Thus speaks the Wisdom of God. The Lord created me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old. Ages ago I was set up, at the first, before the beginning of the earth. When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no springs abounding with water. Before the mountains had been shaped, before the hills, I was brought forth; before he had made the earth with its fields, or the first of the dust of the world. When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him, like a master workman; and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the sons of men.
SECOND READING: Romans 5:1-5. Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in our hope of sharing the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
GOSPEL: John 16:12-15. Jesus said to his disciples: “I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, for he will take what is mine and declare it to you. All that the Father has is mine; therefore I said that he will take what is mine and declare it to you.”
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It is pitiable to behold some people imagining to have grasped, or fully comprehended, God. Very often, instead of acknowledging that they are created in God’s likeness and image, they create a God of their own likeness and image. They impose their own views and whatever objectives they might have on what they call God. This is not the God revealed to us in Holy Scripture. The God revealed to us is a mystery, and will always remain so. As the Book of Proverbs reminds us, God is all Wisdom; a wisdom which supersedes all we can think or imagine; a wisdom which is not bound and embraces all and everything.
Paul reminds us that nothing on our part can get us closer to God. It is God who comes to us. We cannot love God. God loves us. We cannot give anything to God. It is God who gives us everything.
It is Jesus who is the revelation of the genuine knowledge of God. It is by knowing Jesus that we come to know God in the Spirit. He is the way; the door. It is by him, through him and with him that we can life our human life divinely, and behold the divine in human life.
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