The Witness of Choice
Tuesday, 33rd week in Ordinary Time
2 Mac 6:18-31; Lk 19: 1-10
We are called to witness to the Lord, the Lord's Gospel and the Lord's Reign. The most powerful of witnesses is the witness of choice, the witness of making a choice for God over many others that claim a reckoning!
Eleazar makes a choice for God by not scandalising the little ones of God against a life for God. Zachaeus makes a choice to hold on to Christ and let everything else go, a witness of inspiration that he gives as an elder!
Even if don't give a great witness per se, I need to atleast refrain from causing scandals for the little ones. Both are equally demanding and not exclusive of each other. The crux is making a choice for God, for a life worthy of God and a life that is uplifting for the people of God!