Everything in our own terms?
Tuesday, 13th week in Ordinary time
Gen 19:15-29; Mt 8: 23-27
Why do storms occur in our life? Or why do storms threaten our lives unprecedentedly? With this question raised in the Gospel, let us have a look at the first reading. When the Lord revealed his will to act against evil in Sodom and Gomorah, first Abraham tried negotiating with the Lord a way out of destruction. The Lord permits it. Then the messengers of God tell Lot, his wife, daughters and his household to flee Sodom but they still linger on. The Messengers of God take them out of the city to make sure they are safe. Now they are asked to run to a hill country a little away, Lot asks for a nearer place! He is granted this favour too. After all these, they were asked only to flee, without looking back - Lot's wife looks back and invites her own end! We want things to happen in life, just like we want and everything in our own terms! We wantonly bring in evil and suffering into our lives, without being aware of it, because we want everything in our own terms and finally blame God for it. This is how storms brew in our lives and there will be a moment we will cry out to God, whom we did not care to engage till then. Can we grow to take things from God, as God wants them - that is the challenge we have today!
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