RevivaLent 2018 - #18

Revive your humility!

Saturday, 2nd week in Lent: 3rd March, 2018.

Mic 7: 14-15, 18-20; Lk 15: 11-32

I have always loved this version of the interpretation which says it was not as much the Son who was prodigal with his money as the Father who was prodigal with his mercy. I love it not merely because it sounds rather novel,  but because that seems more likely the point that Jesus wanted to draw - the unconditional and limitless mercy of God. 

The first reading brings out the fact of how strange it sounded to the Old Testament people that God would endlessly forgive! It still sounds strange to many, why even to us sometimes. We do not really grasp that logic though we pretend as if we comprehend it. If only we truly understand it, we would be totally humbled and heart broken!

God offers to cast our sins deep in the ocean,  the ocean of God's  love and mercy. The Word invites us to focus on the right perspective of Christian living... an optimism of continual renewal and unconditional acceptance. Oh how blessed and loved we are!

If only we realise how much we are forgiven, how much we are loved, how much we are cared for by the Almighty, we would grow more and more humble, open and all-embracing. All the we need to do is realise how undeservedly blessed we are! That needs a lot of humility. 

So, let us revive our humility!