Jesus Christ is Our Future and Our Salvation! What a Blessing!

 

Jesus Christ is our future and our salvation! He is all we need to look to. We do not need to look back, we are forgiven in Christ for all our sins and our past. We need to look forward to the future. All the readings this week in church speak of this! Do not look back! Do not think about the past or wrong doings or past iniquities. Look forward in God and His love for us, His mercy! The Gospel reading for this week talks about this, we should not judge. We are all guilty of sin, we need to not cast so many rocks at other sinners, we all need to turn from sin, look forward to our future and seek and live with Christ in our hearts and minds, have His holy spirit in us always as we live! What a blessing to have the option of living with Jesus Christ with us forever into eternity with Him! Thank God for my faith! Thank God for His love, mercy, and forgiveness! While so many sin and have become slaves of satan, we can turn from sin, selfishness, greed, and corruption, and sin no more and live in Christ and be the best people for Him alone and look forward to our future with Him in eternity as well! Let us all be loving, kind, and encouraging to all with no judgement or hate, more Christ-like always! Kind words work wonders! We all can return to Him! "The Lord has done great things for us; we are filled with joy." So so blessed with Christ in me! Alleluia! 

Enjoy the mass readings below! 

First Reading from Isaiah 43:16-21
Thus says the LORD,
            who opens a way in the sea
            and a path in the mighty waters,
who leads out chariots and horsemen,
            a powerful army,
till they lie prostrate together, never to rise,
            snuffed out and quenched like a wick.
Remember not the events of the past,
            the things of long ago consider not;
see, I am doing something new!
            Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
In the desert I make a way,
            in the wasteland, rivers.
Wild beasts honor me,
            jackals and ostriches,
for I put water in the desert
            and rivers in the wasteland
            for my chosen people to drink,
the people whom I formed for myself,
            that they might announce my praise.

Responsorial Psalm
Psalm 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6.
R. (3)  The Lord has done great things for us; we are filled with joy.
When the LORD brought back the captives of Zion,
            we were like men dreaming.
Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
            and our tongue with rejoicing.
R. The Lord has done great things for us; we are filled with joy.

Reading II
Letter of St. Paul to the Philippians 3:8-14
Brothers and sisters:
I consider everything as a loss
because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.
For his sake I have accepted the loss of all things
and I consider them so much rubbish,
that I may gain Christ and be found in him,
not having any righteousness of my own based on the law
but that which comes through faith in Christ,
the righteousness from God,
depending on faith to know him and the power of his resurrection
and the sharing of his sufferings by being conformed to his death,
if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
It is not that I have already taken hold of it
or have already attained perfect maturity,
but I continue my pursuit in hope that I may possess it,
since I have indeed been taken possession of by Christ Jesus.
Brothers and sisters, I for my part
do not consider myself to have taken possession.
Just one thing: forgetting what lies behind
but straining forward to what lies ahead,
I continue my pursuit toward the goal,
the prize of God’s upward calling, in Christ Jesus.

Verse before the Gospel
Joel 2:12-13
Even now, says the Lord,
return to me with your whole heart;
for I am gracious and merciful.

Gospel
John 8:1-11
Jesus went to the Mount of Olives.
But early in the morning he arrived again in the temple area,
and all the people started coming to him,
and he sat down and taught them.
Then the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman
who had been caught in adultery
and made her stand in the middle.
They said to him,
“Teacher, this woman was caught
in the very act of committing adultery.
Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women.
So what do you say?”
They said this to test him,
so that they could have some charge to bring against him.
Jesus bent down and began to write on the ground with his finger.
But when they continued asking him,
he straightened up and said to them,
“Let the one among you who is without sin
be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Again he bent down and wrote on the ground.
And in response, they went away one by one,
beginning with the elders.
So he was left alone with the woman before him.
Then Jesus straightened up and said to her,
“Woman, where are they?
Has no one condemned you?”
She replied, “No one, sir.”
Then Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you.
Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”