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We have entered into a new year. God has blessed us in so many ways and we are thankful to Him for preserving us both naturally and spiritually. In fact, we should be equally concerned about our spiritual health at least as much as our physical health. For the soul will eventually live in eternity, while the body will pass.
It reads in the gospel according to Mark (6:56) “And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole”. When Lord Jesus passed through villages and towns, the miracles he did in those days affected the physical well-being of the people. But Jesus Christ had come on earth to save people from sin through His sacrifice. This is only possible when we accept the word of God in faith. “Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you”.
Jesus taught his disciples (John 15:3). When we receive grace and forgiveness, we are also in touch with the Lord, which makes us sound. When we partake in the Divine service and celebrate communion, we absorb the nature, mind and spirit of Christ inside us. Our sacrifice, an active prayer life and the fellowship with the Apostles of Jesus, that makes us able to remain in closeness with the Lord. But above all else is the love of God that is poured out on us through the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Apostle John described it “And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him” (1. John 4:16). Let us be sure we thoroughly understand God’s plan of salvation and prepare ourselves with an everlasting hope for Christ’s return.