Thursday, 27th week in ordinary time
October 11, 2018: Gal 3: 1-5; Lk 11: 5-13
Do you remember this character, Dory from the famous movie 'Finding Nemo' and 'Finding Dory'? She is known for her forgetfulness...she ends up asking every moment to those with her, 'who are you'? At times she even forgets who she is.
Forgetfulness can lead to embarrassing situations, sometimes to unfortunate predicaments too. No, we are not talking about the Gospel where the man in question forgets that his friend is going to visit him or the friend who forgets to inform him about his visit, maybe. We are talking about the Galatians who forgot so prematurely their true identity and Paul gets so angry with them.
At times when we forget our true identity, the identity that we inherit in the Lord, we end up so foolish, lost in our egoism, legalism and materialism. All these three will disorient us from who we really are and make us unable to approach the Lord with a childlike trust to ask, seek and to knock.
Asking, knocking, seeking are acts of faith, they are not acts of some desperate effort to get something by all means. They are acts of faith by which we live our convictions that, even before asking the Lord knows my needs; to knock is to surrender oneself totally, come what may; and to seek is not a call to seek in vain or in all-emptiness but to seek the person who lives within us, who dwell within us, who makes us the dwelling places of God (cf 1 Cor 3:16; 6:19).Once we possess the Spirit, we would need nothing: Seek ye first the Reign of God, and everything will be given unto you. Once we forget this identity that we possess, then we have nothing to hold on to, like persons in amnesia - inspite of having everything and everyone around, they would not realise it all - that is the pity of forgetfulness!
