Growing recognizant of the faithfulness of God...
Jer 30: 1-2, 12-15, 18-22; Mt 15: 1-2, 10-14
"You shall be my people and I will be your God": everytime that I hear this statement...I am filled with an awe about the unfailing love of God. What are all my actions in front of this unbounded love of God? What do my so called great sacrifices and pious practices measure up to, in comparison to the immeasurable love of God? How worthy is my faithfulness to God vis-a-vis the faithfulness of God towards me?
The only concern that should fill my mind is how to translate that awe into attitudes, attitudes of absolute gratefulness, total obedience and boundless humility. If these attitudes develop in us, how peaceful we can grow to be! They would reduce to the minimum our tendency to judge others or consider others unbearable. How irritable we get and how fast we lose our patience with people. Between husbands and wives, between friends, between colleagues, between collaborators of the same team...how forbearing are we? How patient and non judgmental can we prove to be! That would be a reflection of how recognizant we are of the unending love and unfailing acceptance of God!