God is always speaking to His world and to each and every person in it. This is true inside and outside Christianity, for there is only one God who is the creator of all. But the importance and the beauty of Jesus is that He is God's focal word.

He is God's Word-made-Flesh. Being one of us, one of our 'brothers', He understands our hearts and speaks our language. The danger of some earlier teaching was that Jesus' divinity was proclaimed in such a way that we were unable to take His humanity seriously. The wonder of Christianity is that the Son of God really was like us in everything except that He did not sin. He sought for meaning the way we seek for meaning, but He did so while listening to His Father.

The message of love that He learned there, He lived and He did not allow anything to turn Him from love. It was this message too that He taught. It was this "Good News" that brought peace and healing to the man in the Gospel.

The first reading tells us to 'listen to him', to receive from him the healing we need and to receive from Him the words and the love that will bring healing to others.