WORD 2day: 18th September, 2017
Monday, 24th week in Ordinary Time
1 Tim 2:1-8; Lk 7: 1-10
The Word today touches upon a crucial point for today - who is a true leader and what we need to do towards having true leaders. Look at the leaders today - one who threatens all those who are around inviting them to prove their might, one who is busy proving himself the most powerful, one who is busy promoting one's hidden agenda come what may, the one's who are more worried about their purses and positions than about those whom they intend to lead, the ones who are busy making noise without really substantialising their inner potency, the ones who have no stand on their own but try to capitalise on others' weaknesses and necessities - are these the kind of leaders we need? Or the kind of leader that the centurion proved to be?
If we need to have good leaders as such, we should first, pray for our leaders; secondly, promote such leaders, instead of losing them in time and space; and thirdly, become ourselves the type of leaders that we wish to see. What shall we engage in now?