HOPE: the sign of God's presence
Saturday, 15thweek in Ordinary Time
Exo 12:37-42, Mt 13: 14-21
Where God is, there is hope. No matter how dark it is, and no matter how long it has been... where God is, there is always a light at the end of everything. All that we need to do is hold on. Hold on with our judgments and actions and hold on to the finger of God. 430 years did not appear too long for the Israelites and the constant opposition did not seem a hindering block to Jesus. That was because they had hope alive in their hearts.
When God's presence is not realised or given importance to, there is no source of constant hope. The situation around and persons around can offer me a ray of hope now or then but when I learn to see everyone of them as instruments in God's hands, I begin to experience the ceaseless hope that God alone can give. The Lord is my hope and my song !