The Advent Task: Trusting in the Rock
3rd December, 2014
Is 26: 6-10; Mt 7: 21, 24-27
The way things are done today and the things that practically work today seem to suggest that there are ways and means to get things done rather than trusting them into God's hands. We worry about things as if everything depended on us and as if they are totally within our capacity. We tend to think of God only at the end of it all, when we feel nothing else had really worked!
Trust in the the Lord forever, the Lord is the everlasting Rock, says the first reading; while the Gospel challenges us to move from a fake and shallow relationship with God towards founding our lives on the rock! Founding our lives on the Rock, trusting the Lord our Rock, does not mean an empty jargon or a figure of speech. It is a concrete dependence on the Lord and the Lord's will on a daily basis, convinced to do just what the Lord wants and whatever the Lord wants!