What does it mean for us to make our home in God?
Week five of some very heavy theology about Jesus – Christology. It all began with Jesus feeding a very large crowd at Passover, and they wanted more. And Jesus begins making sense of that for them using the exodus, and the mana which God gave to God’s newly liberated and grumpy people. He interprets his action with God’s generosity in the wilderness, while those people learnt how to live with God in their midst, and how to live God’s liberation and generosity for all.
But now Jesus is taking them and us deeper. It feels complex and convoluted. How are we to understand “I assure you, unless you eat the flesh of the Human One and drink his blood, you have no life in you.”[1] It’s hard and tricky and a little uncomfortable.
It began way back in chapter 1. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…. Everything came into being through the Word, and without the Word nothing came into being. What came into being through the Word was life, and the life was the light for all people…. The Word became flesh and made his home among us.”[2] Jesus is God’s deep desire for relationship with the people God created – all people. In Jesus, God makes a home among us, as God dwelt amidst of the people of Israel in the wilderness. As we eat/gnaw at/ingest the life and being of The Word made flesh we are invited to make our home in God. What does that look like?
Today we celebrate Hori Tapu, Saint George. In his life we see what it looks like when we make our home in God. We also celebrate the people of our parish who do the same. What does it mean for us to make our home in God?
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