Jesus keeps many from being in “The Lost Generation” by letting us see This Word:
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Question 1: “If we take Isaiah seriously, will he let us see Jesus?”
Answer: “Today’s Reading memorializes the Faith of St. Lucy, whose name means ‘light-bringer’! Light lets us see what God told Isaiah in Is 48:79-19. It begins by illuminating what God says! ‘ Thus says The Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I, The Lord, your God, teach you what is for your good, and lead you on the way you should go.’”
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Question 2: “Is there an advantage to seeing what God teaches us about ‘what is for your good’ so we may be on ‘the way we should go?”
Answer: “Isaiah tells us what God’s Light lets us see! ‘If you would hearken to My commandments, your prosperity would be like a river, and your vindication like the waves of the sea; Your descendants would be like the sand, and those born of your stock like its grains, Their name never cut off or blotted out from my presence.’”
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Question 2: “Does God’s First Psalm 1:1-6 shine more ‘light’ on Isaiah’s Advice in The Bible?”
Answer: “May all be blessed to see this! ‘Blessed the man who follows not the counsel of the wicked nor walks in the way of sinners, nor sits in the company of the insolent, but delights in the law of The Lord and meditates on His law day and night.’
Each of those people will be ‘like a tree planted near running water (God’s Life-Giving Word), that yields its fruit in due season and whose leaves never fade. Whatever he does prospers.’
Then, God gives the light to let us see what happens to the disobedient! ‘Not so the wicked, not so: they are like chaff which the wind dries away. For The Lord watches over the way of the just, but the way of the wicked vanishes.’
John 8:12 reduces those Psalms, and every human life, into one sentence! ‘Those who follow you, Lord, will have the light of life.’
The opposite is true! those who do not have ‘the light of life’ are left only with ‘the darkness of death.’”
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Question 3: “How does He Who Fulfilled The Prophecies describe our “generation” of people on earth?”
Answer: “He began by asking a Simple Question: ‘Jesus said to the crowds: ‘To what shall I compare this generation?’
Then, The Son of God answered The Question that no one on earth could! ‘It (they) are like children who sit in marketplaces and call to one another, ‘We played the flute for you but you did not dance, we sang a dirge but you did not mourn.’
Jesus also reminded them of their thoughts about John the Baptist: ‘For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they said, ‘He is possessed by a demon.’
Then, He showed their love of themselves with this comparison to what the lost ‘generation’ said about Him! ‘The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they said, ‘Look, he is a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.'”
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Question 4: “What do we learn from that about everyone around us?”
Answer: “The ‘lost generation’ of people decided John The Baptist was ‘too holy’ and that Jesus was ‘too sinful’. They only approve of those who ‘dance’ when their opinions are praised and only ‘mourn’ when they are not.
The Bible tells us all: The lost ‘generation’ worships themselves and their opinions.”
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Today’s Simple Rhyme: “Before my Judgment, may I see / God knows far, far more than me.”
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