1. “Even so let your light shine before men, in order that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven” (Mt 5:16).
This first mention of the Father by Name in the New Testament shows us how Jesus came to reverse the effects of original sin.
Jesus, later in the same Sermon on the Mount, will say that, “Every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit” (Mt 7:17). People seeing the good fruit in our lives are attracted to the tree. Unlike the fruit of the” tree of the knowledge of good and evil” (Gen 3:9), which also appeared good, but led to the glorification of man in place of God (i.e. death), the fruit of those who do good works so that the Father may be glorified always leads to life. When our Good Father is known and glorified in His True Nature then we find again the purpose of our existence as His beloved sons and daughters. This is the Light that “the Light of the World” (Jn 8:12) came to bring to us so that we could in turn spread its radiance everywhere.
