11th October, 2013
The Day of the Lord - in the history of the people of God - has had quite a few interpretations. The most common of those during the Old Testament times, was what we find in the first reading today - a day of doom, a day of destruction, a day of final judgement! Jesus, spoke of not just the day of the Lord, but the days of the Lord, the coming of the Reign of God! The sense of judgement persisted, but the fear of destruction or doom gave way to the need to take a stand, the urgency to make a choice - for God or against God! The day or the moment that we make a choice for God becomes for us the day of the Lord! When that choice for God becomes persistent and absolute, that is the Reign of God. Am I ready to choose God, and choose God alone? Am I prepared to stand up for God? If yes, I become a son or a daughter of the Reign.