Saturday, December 22, 2018

The WORD in ADVENT - Necessary traits to receive the Reign #2

Open up to the Lord

Sunday, December 23, 2018
Malachi 3: 1-4, 23-24; Luke 1: 57-66

Today being Sunday, we have another set of Word to reflect upon today... we shall reflect on them separately. Here continuing the message of the last three days before Christmas..let us continue our list of traits.

The second trait that we are reminded of today is, to be open to the Lord. Open you clouds of heaven and rain forth our Saviour, we pray these days of Novena. The clouds can open and rain forth, but if we are not open enough to receive the Lord, if we haven't opened our hearts to receive the Lord, everything would be in vain. Hence the call, to open ourselves up to the Lord! 

This is an age of whatsapp and instagram. One who for an instance might receive close to over 200 messages everyday, how many of them would he or she read fully? Most of them do not even open all of them, some of them read just the beginning and by then they know what it is all about. Just a very few are read with attention. At times our attitude to life too becomes this way: we get so used to life and daily events of life that we do not pay attention to many but just a few things around us. New people, new events remain merely strangers and strange happenings, familiar people become 'same old people' and not worth paying attention to, just a few whom we consider 'important' we attend to. Is that a Reign attitude? 

The Word today says, NO! To Read the Message in every event and in every person, is the task given to us. If we miss this task we would miss Jesus when he comes. The Messenger is sent. The Messages are all around. It is there for our taking. We need to receive them, read them with care and respond to them with life. 

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