THE KING IN SEARCH

WORD 2day: 13th January, 2018

Saturday, 1st week in Ordinary Time

1 Sam 9:1-4,17-19,10:1; Mk 2:13-17

The Word presents to us today two persons...one, who went in search of the donkeys and the other, who went in search of the sinners... both for the sake of their fathers' wish! Though the comparison is strange, the fact is that both are kings...one the first king of Israel and the latter the eternal King of heaven and earth. 

We may consider ourselves worthless and as dumb as donkeys, but the truth is that the Lord is in search of us. Many a times we speak of a humanity that is in search of God...but how much more true it is to think of the Lord who is in search of each of us. Let us open ourselves up to the Lord; invite the King into our hearts; and the King shall reign forever in our lives and through us, reach out to many more who are lost and are searching for themselves! 

I do realise that I have been too allegorical here, but the message is simple and straight: to be forever open to the Lord, in a sense of daily conversion and repentance, ever growing more and more as children of God. At times you may not be  understood by all, just as Jesus found himself misunderstood, misinterpreted and misjudged. Should that matter to you, as a chosen child of God. Go ahead and remain with the Father's will. 

The King has searched you out and chosen you - believe in it. Live your everyday worthy of that King!