Being God's People - a sense of 'given'
Saturday, 27th week in Ordinary Time
Joel 4: 12-21; Lk 11: 27-28
Joel speaks of that day of calamity that was bound to come, but adds a note of promise to God's people. The rest of the discussion is the whole dispute of the biblical history. ..who are these God's people? Some claim that status for themselves on the basis of their historical, geographical, ethnic and social background.
Jesus makes it clear in the Gospel today- all these details may matter but what matters most is the way you live your life today. Life is a given and it comes with a multitude of givens that come along with it. If God has willed me to be born at this juncture and here and now... that has within it a task and a call that comes along. I would do good to understand that task, that call ...because that is what God wants from me and in accomplishing it or committing myself to it, I become God's! To live my life with a sense of given, that's what will make us God's people.