TO BE OUT OF OUR MINDS, FOR GOD

WORD 2day: 20th January, 2018 

Saturday, 2nd week in Ordinary Time

2 Sam 1:1-4,11-12,17,19,23-27; Mk 3:20-21

If anyone looked at what is happening in the first reading from today's standards, they would say either David is gone mad or David is faking! Saul the King is dead, the only claim to the throne Jonathan is dead - the way is clear for David to accede the throne! That is how the world would look - we know the political dramas that take place every now and then all around us. But David was not faking! He truly loved Saul and held Jonathan very close to his heart. And his moaning was a genuine cry from his soul.

These kind of people will be considered mad today - even those days! People who are all time caught up in noble ideas and do not want to stoop to the so called worldly standards, people who are fixated with doing good for the others even at the cost of their beings, people who genuinely seek the good of the other and put anything at stake for it, people who see a purpose to their life, which no one else can really see - these people would certainly be branded -mad, out of their minds, lunatics, strange!

Jesus was considered "out of his mind"...yes he was! All that filled his mind was doing the will of his Father. Neither food nor drink nor sleep nor dwelling nor health nor life nor death bothered him - he wanted to do good to the people, take the good news to the people, because that is what the Father wanted of him. He was out of his mind, FOR GOD! As his disciples, isn't that our call too - to be out of our minds for God?