Tuesday of Week 28 – Rom 1:16-25; Psalm 18:2-5; Luke 11:37-41
Everyone needs salvation – we hear Saint Paul today. Both pagans and Jews. And only through Jesus Christ can this be achieved. This is the Gospel, this is the Good News that we can announce to the world today, he explains. And by the way, while explaining what the sin of the pagans is, he also formulates an important statement regarding the possibility of knowing God:
Since the creation of the world, His invisible attributes – His eternal power and deity – have become visible to the mind through His works.
Through His works. When I see a painting, whether it’s a portrait or a landscape, I have no doubt that it is the work of some man. It didn’t paint itself. Similarly, when I see a house: it was not built by the forces of nature alone. Human thought and work are behind it. Why do so many not think like this when they see God’s works? Why does he consider the creation of the world in all its diversity to be the work of blind forces of nature and not the result of the Creator’s ingenuity?
It’s more convenient: close your eyes and shout: “I can’t see”; cover your ears and say: “I can’t hear.” For us, who have come to know God through Christ, the world is a book representing God. A source of admiration for His wisdom, support for hope that since He has given us such a safe refuge on Earth in this dangerous universe, He probably really cares about us . . .