The real sign!
Wednesday, 15th week in Ordinary Time
Gen 3: 1-6,9-12; Mt 11:25-27
The story of Moses unfolds, or the story of Israel with Moses at the head. The Lord gives Moses a sign. Read carefully the first reading today: the sign is not about the changing water, festering frogs and buzzing flies, the actual sign the Lord gives is people serving the Lord on the Mount. We cannot get lost with intermediate signs and temporary glamours - like the crying statues, the bleeding icons and so on. The actual sign is in serving the Lord as a people of God. I remember a movie called Joshua, where a new prophetic man enters a community. Everyone thinks he will do great things and develop the society, but all that he does is touch individual hearts and build up the community and every thing else follows! That is what the Lord wants of us today - to touch each other's heart and build up true communion. Once that is done everything will follow. Those who see will exclaim like Jesus does in the Gospel today, giving praises to the Lord. Let us grow in genuine relationship, true mutual concern and sincere care for each other - that is the real sign!