Revive your decision to reform hardened hearts
Thursday, 3rd week in Lent: 8th Mar, 2018
Jer 7: 23-28; Lk 11: 14-23
The world today is living a life of indifference, an inhuman and incredible indifference, so cold and selfish. Nothing matters to anyone until it hurts him or her personally. Be it individuals, groups, institutions or even local churches... we are overwhelmed by concerns of security in the face of increasing injustice in the larger society.
The Word today invites us to listen to the Lord speaking, speaking through the cries of the innocent victims - the cries of the poor, the tears of those who have lost their dear ones to violence and crime, the miseries of those who have never understood the meaning of 'sufficient', those who are left to live in the brink of death day in and day out!
Let's beware of branding the poor as lazy, citing fate for the miseries of some in stark contrast to the filthy affluence of the others, brushing aside the sufferings of those who are victims of injustice saying we have nothing to do with it. ..when we do all these we are closing our eyes, shutting our ears and hardening our hearts against God!
With hardened hearts we will only be against God, scattering what God wants to gather. With hardened hearts we will only push God into the dark and the dark forces right unto the fore! Let us revive our decision to reform our hardened hearts, to transform them into hearts truly of flesh and blood!
