God called into being what did not exist. He animates creatures, in Him
we have life. There is perfect joy and contentment reflected in the
image of Paradise. Why then, in the first reading, does Isaiah speak
about a new heavens and new earth when supposedly there is already
perfect joy and contentment? What happened to the first creation that
there is a need to recreate it?
Creation observed all the natural order of nature. It was man that
destroyed this order. Man wanted to be God. In our pride we decide to
run our own lives according to our concupiscence and reason but not
according to the plan of God. Consequently we experienced division,
destruction, selfishness. Yet we know that we are supposed to be
spiritual. “I cannot understand my own behavior. I fail to carry out
the things I want to do, and I find myself doing the very things I
hate. For the will to do what is good is in me, the performance is
not.” (Rom 7: 15.18) That is why we need Jesus Christ to restore the
original order in our lives and to reintroduce us again to the joy of
Eden. This interior renewal is made through the sacrament of Baptism.
We become new people now capable of obeying God our Creator and Father.
The healing of the royal official’s son in the gospel is our image. We
are restored to life thanks to God and the love of Christ.
