Jesus said to his disciples:
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets.
I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.
The great American evangelist, Billy Graham, once said, “If you want to know what God is like, look at Jesus Christ.” At the heart of the good news is the profound belief that in Jesus, the God who lives in unapproachable light, embraced humanity in one like ourselves. Jesus is the eternal Word of God made flesh.
One of the early Church Fathers, St. Athanasius, said that “the Son of God became man so that man could become god!” This beautiful teaching in the theology of the Eastern Church is called ‘divinization.’ The fullness of the law and the prophets that Jesus spoke of in today’s Gospel is precisely to share now and in eternity in the very life of God himself.
My friends, you and I are made for and destined for transformation and divinization! Nothing in life is ever truly ordinary because all has been redeemed and made new through the amazing grace of Christ the risen Savior.