25th November, 2013
The world has a stereotypical standards of what is good and what is better; social standards of what makes one good and what makes one better than the other! The temptation to conform to that social stereotypes is very high and dangerously subtle. Many a times we fall into the trap, though the Word very often warns us, "Do not conformed to this world" (Rom 12:2). Because, "the Lord does not see as the mortals see" (1 Sam 16:7). That is why, the two tiny coins that the widow drops quietly into the treasury seems more valuable to Jesus than the bags and bags of wealth that the others dump there. To be his disciples, "let the same mind be in you, as it was in Christ Jesus" (Phil 2:5) instructs St. Paul. Daniel was special because of this, God's mind was in him, the wisdom of the Lord was in him, that made him shine to the rest of the world. Maybe, I need to ask the Lord today, to give me that wisdom to see things as the Lord does, with the same mind that was in Christ Jesus.