Danger of missing the Lord who comes #5:
When troubles surround or challenges abound, we try to manage our lives with our own strength or seeking those who can give a solution, notwithstanding the fact that they themselves are persons with similar problems and puzzles. Fortune predictions, numerical calculations, geographical adjustments, material omens... how many substitutes we run to, instead of the Lord almighty who alone has the ultimate power! Ahaz represents that world of reducing the Lord God to our thinking, our calculations and our predictions! But Mary stands a model for a silent acceptance of the marvels of God which are beyond any of our imagination, even at the most trying moment of our lives.
The readings today warn us of the fifth danger of missing the Lord who comes to visit us: Reducing God to human thinking, that when God acts in history we do not even notice the wonder of God's presence.
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