God and God alone
Saturday, 25th week in Ordinary Time
Zech 2:5-9,14-15; Lk 9: 43-45
Beginning with last Sunday Jesus has been dwelling on the theme of his suffering. It is not yet the close of his ministry, if we carefully watch the context in the Gospel. What then is Jesus proposing to teach? Life with the Lord is not a career, it is not a life securing strategy. It is infact, on the contrary, a challenging self giving. When we make a choice for God, we are taking a risky step of giving away our traditional concepts of security, social upward mobility, self satisfaction and so on... but beyond all these insufficiencies there is the only Reality that can give meaning and fulfillment: God and God alone! It is the underlying presence of the ever living God that gives joy to a God's child, happiness beyond all struggles, calmness beyond all anxieties, loveliness beyond all brokenness. God and God alone, can fill our beings truly!