Creation is Blessed

Reflection for Tuesday of the 5th Week in Ordinary Time Year
(Gen 1:20-2:4, Mk 7:1-13)
God continues to call things into being and endow them with responsibility. When it is time to create man, God, with a progressive swift, changed the tone of calling things into being and said “Let us make man in our own image...” It seems there was a ‘pause’, a moment of reflection, before man was created. As a product of ‘Thought’, man is endowed with the inherent capability for self-reflection. Man becomes the most excellent of all creation. God endowed him with the following responsibilities: 1. To have dominion over other creatures. 2. To be fruitful and multiply and subdue the earth. 3. To have animals and trees as food. God blessed man and set him off as the King of all creatures. Once man is blessed  the whole creation is blessed.

For six days God brought forth creation. But on the seventh day, there was “silence”; He drew attention to Himself. God rested! Now, the work of creation anticipate “God's rest”. Our eyes are turned to the Lord, who made heaven and earth. Again, “God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all His work which He had done in creation.” Now all creation has two points blessing: Man and the Seventh Day.

The Pharisees accused the disciplines of eating without washing their hands. Therefore, Jesus corrected them that human laws and tradition cannot displace the word of God. Hunan principles must be directed towards God. Jesus, The First Born of all Creation, becomes our source of blessing and fulfilment of every human law.

Fr Jude Chinwe Nwachukwu,  C.Ss.R
Immaculate Conception Parish,
Iba Estate,  Lagos.
Tuesday February 12, 2019.