The WORD in ADVENT - Living the Reign here and now #5

Place your trust on the Rock

First Thursday in Advent: 6th December,  2018

Isaiah 26: 1-6; Matthew 7: 21, 24-27

Living the Reign here and now, means founding our lives on the Rock, right now and right here! We seem to have two kinds of logic that operate within us simultaneously... one which is a practical logic and the other spiritual logic. The former rules our daily life and the latter only our so-called prayer moments... unfortunately they hardly meet each other.

The way things are done today and the things that practically work today seem to suggest that there are ways and means to get things done rather than trusting them into God's hands. We worry and fret about things as if everything depended on us and as if they are totally within our capacity. We tend to think of God only at the end of it all,  when we feel nothing else had really worked! 

Trust is not having resort to the Lord at the end of everything, but entrusting everything into God's will right from the beginning, right from the time we set about on a task! It is to feel at every moment the ground beneath us, standing strong and prodding us along amidst difficulties. It cannot be a mere crisis-management. 

Trust in the Lord forever, the Lord is the everlasting Rock, says the first reading; while the Gospel challenges us to move from a fake and shallow relationship with God towards founding our lives on the rock! Founding our lives on the Rock,  trusting the Lord our Rock,  does not mean an empty jargon or a figure of speech. It is a concrete dependence on the Lord and the Lord's will on a daily basis, convinced to do just what the Lord wants and whatever the Lord wants. Thus we shall begin to live the Reign here and now!