Thirty-first Sunday

Lk 19: 1-10 Zacchaeus

The mark of God is super-abundance.

Call it mercy if you like, but it’s an outrageous and wild super-abundance.

God is not mean and the person truly touched by God is not mean because to be touched by God is to be touched by wild super-abundance.

So when Zacchaeus is touched by God he cannot help but respond super-abundantly… if he’s cheated anybody he commits to paying him back four times the amount. Four times!

This wild super-abundance is the sign of God’s presence, the guarantee that where God was once absent from Zacchaeus’ life, he is most definitely now present.

Is there any sign of this wild super-abundance in our lives?