Jesus

The Desire for God is written in the human heart, because man is created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw man to Himself.  Only in God will he find the truth and happiness he never stops searching for.[1] Who is Jesus? Jesus is the second person of the Holy Trinity. He is the fulfillment of God Our Father’s promise to mankind.  Because Jesus became man and walked among us, He is the face of God that we find the most approachable.  To know Jesus, it is necessary to read scripture. The Word “In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God; and the Word was God”  (Jn 1:1).  John introduces us to Jesus as “The Word.”  Before Jesus became a man, He existed as the Word.  He first revealed Himself to the world as the Word of Sacred Scripture.  The Bible was divinely inspired and through reading The Word, we come to know Jesus.  Because the Word in Scripture is Jesus, the Church venerates the scripture.  This scripture is not a design of human plan and thought, it is a communication from God Himself.  God is the author of Scripture and He reveals Himself to us through it.[2]  It is because these words are from God that man cannot undertake to change the words or remove verses or entire books from the Bible (Rv 22:18-19).  The Bible in its entirety is the truth; to change scripture is a distortion of the truth and distorts our understanding of the person of Jesus. Why did Jesus decide to become man?  St. John tells us the reason:  “In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness; and the darkness grasped it not” (Jn 1:4-5).  Jesus is our life. Through Him we have eternal life (1 Jn 5:11-13).  We had lost our eternal life through our sin, so Jesus came to earth to restore life to us.  Because the penalty for sin is death, Jesus came to pay the penalty for our sin by dying in our place.  In His resurrection, He also restored our life to us.  In the Memorial Acclamation of the Mass, we proclaim “Dying you destroyed our death, rising you restored our life.[3]” This is why Jesus came to earth.  We had lost our way in the darkness of our sin and He came to show us the light, to lead us to salvation (Jn 4:9). The Holy Name of Jesus When the time came for Jesus to enter the world, God sent His angel Gabriel to a young virgin named Mary.  He said to her, “Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt bring forth a son and shalt call His name Jesus” (Lk 1:31).  The name “Jesus” means “savior.”  He was given this name by God because He was sent to save the people from their sins.  Therefore, every time we pronounce the Holy Name of Jesus, we give…