Friday, 26th week in Ordinary time
5th October, 2018: Job 38: 1, 12-21, 40: 3-5; Lk 10: 13-16
'From Knowledge to Ignorance' is one of the famous titles from one of the Spiritual gurus of India. It may sound a bit odd but there is deep truth in the perspective and that is the message of the readings today. We run the risk of getting too used to the great things that God keeps doing for us. At times, due to some setbacks that we could possibly experience, or due to some troublesome moments, we tend to forget all that has gone by so well.
I have indeed noticed in day to day relationships too: when there is a misunderstanding or a trouble to be faced, the individuals involved are so oblivious of the great moments that they have shared together. The present trouble becomes so occupying that the words that they use, the sentiments they reveal and the decisions that they make are so conditioned by that passing trouble, however trying it could be at the moment. There is a bigger picture to everything that happens and that is, God's eternal plan!
In the first reading, God challenges the attitude of questioning the eternal designs of God. We lack the Wisdom to understand the plans of God in all its details but with the little that we are capable of, we pretend to be masters of everything! It is important that we realise our limitedness inspite of our great acomplishments, that we acknowledge the wisdom in God's plan inspite of our nothingness.
If our eyes are truly open to what is happening around, if our ears are genuinely open to the Words that come from above, if our hearts are absolutely open to the promptings of the Spirit of the Lord, then we would open our lives to the Lord and we would grasp the profound sense of the eternal plan of God.