AT THE RIGHT TIME

WORD 2day: 12th October, 2017

Thursday, 27th week in Ordinary Time

Mal 3: 13-20; Lk 11:5-13

Just yesterday we reflected upon waiting for the answers from the Lord and today the Word insists on the same: at the right time, everything will be set right! If I want it right now, it does not mean it is the right time. If I insist on having what I want, when I want it, where is the space for the Omniscient God, the God who has a plan for eternity. Within God's eternal plan everything will have its place. 

Our confusion regarding the thriving evil ones, our compassion for the suffering righteous ones, our helplessness before the conniving shrewd ones, our anger before the insensitive powerful ones...all these should not frustrate us, if we take the God-perspective seriously. If only we can look at everything that is happening from God's perspectives we will be filled with that serenity that God alone can give.

This serenity is not inactivity or passivity or incapacity... it is a hopeful surrender to the Lord that truth and righteousness alone can triumph because God is in charge! Nothing can ultimately go wrong, for a while some forces can be at play but the final victory belongs to the Lord. This is the hope of Resurrection and we are a Resurrection People!