WORD 2day: 1st December, 2017
Friday, last week in Ordinary Time
Dan 7: 2-14; Lk 21: 29-33
Where is your hope, your strength, your assurance? Money, it shall liquidify. Power, it shall drift away. Things, they shall pass away. Persons, they shall abandon you someday. Today, it is used as a pain reliever statement: 'this too will pass'. But beware! That shall be your sad predicament too - everything shall pass away!
That is why, the need for something, something that will never pass away. The recurring theme of today is a reference to something that is here to stay, never to pass away... the Lord's Word, the Lord's Reign, the Lord's sovereignty.
The final word will always be the Lord's! Calamities, Persecutions, Demoralisations these are what we see in the case of all those who had to pay with their blood, the price for their faith in Christ. The first reading foretells the same, finishing however with a note of hope on the eternal dominion of the Son of Man.
The Gospel reaffirms the hope, from the mouth of the very object of that hope: the Word made flesh. Perseverance is a virtue in imitation of the faithfulness of God. 'Let us never grow tired of doing what is right' (2 Thes 3:13), as the Lord himself who never gets tired of loving us!
Things may appear to be going totally out of sway, or nothing may seem to be under the control of anything spiritual...but never lose heart, God is in charge; God is in control. However bad the signs of the times are, your saviour knows you and to his Reign there is no end. Be firm in faith...and cast your hope on that which shall never pass away: the Holy Will of God!