[Grem] Gospel meditation

[Emoke Greschik]

 Friends, in today’s Gospel, *Jesus asserts his pre-existence by declaring
that “before Abraham came to be, I AM.”*

*There has been a disturbing tendency in recent years to turn Jesus into an
inspiring spiritual teacher. But if that’s all he is, the heck with him.
The Gospels are never content with such a reductive description.* *Though
they present him as a teacher, they know that he is infinitely more than
that, that something else is at stake in him and our relation to him.*

*Scripture clearly teaches that Jesus is divine.* *He once declared, “Have
faith in God; have faith also in me.*” We can easily imagine other
religious founders urging faith in God, but we’d be hard pressed to imagine
them urging the same faith in themselves! But on Jesus’ lips, the two are
parallel.

*As C.S. Lewis so vividly saw, this means that Jesus compels us to make a
choice the way no other figure does*. *Either you are with Jesus, *o*r you
are against him. *There is no other way to take in this language. *To get
this wonderful paradox is to come close to the heart of what it means to be
a Christian.*

*Imádkozzál érettünk, Istennek szent Anyja!  Hogy méltók lehessünk Krisztus
ígéreteire!  Könyörögjünk! Kérünk téged, Úristen, öntsd lelkünkbe szent
kegyelmedet, hogy akik az angyali üzenet által szent Fiadnak, Jézus
Krisztusnak megtestesülését megismertük, az ő kínszenvedése és keresztje
által a föltámadás dicsőségébe vitessünk! Krisztus, a mi Urunk által. Ámen.*
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