Check your Seed!

Wednesday, 8th week in Ordinary Time

30th May, 2018: 1 Peter 1: 18-25; Mk 10: 32-45

A tree is known from its fruits, the Word would remind us! The Word today speaks of a similar reality. It presents to us two crops of people: one an old crop and the other a new crop, a newly born community of persons, born anew in the blood of Christ. The seed of the latter crop is the very blood of Christ! The Question is: which crop do I belong?

Jesus presents to us both the contrasting mentalities, the popular mentality of dominance and control and the Jesus mentality of service and collaboration; the popular mentality of judgment and categorisation and the Jesus' mentality of compassion and understanding; the popular mentality of division and superiority and the Jesus' mentality of communion and solidarity! 

One will not fit in the other for they two are contrasting mentalities and the Lord wants us to make a choice and make it known! Jesus is preparing his disciples today in the Gospel, to be a crop of the latter kind. Of course, he finds it tough but he does not mind it and he will never compromise on it. 

The same he expects from us - that we grow to bear fruits, fruits belonging to the crop of Christ himself! We better become aware, to which crop we belong and we better check our seed!