The standards of the Undiscerning mind

WORD 2day: Wednesday, 20th week in Ordinary time

August 21, 2019: Judges 9: 6-15; Matthew 20: 1-16

Just yesterday we reflected on God's choices; today we get to reflect on the human choices. If God's choices were strange for noble reasons; the human choices are strange too, but for all wrong reasons - lack of judgement, result of manipulation, jealousy and maliciousness! 

The first reading is a picturesque presentation of this situation, by way of a parable narrated by Jotham - how we end up at times happily choosing the bramble as our shelter and hope! We create standards for ourselves, which are no standards at all in the sight of God and in the perspective of eternal life, and then we wish to live up to it, even at the cost of lives - Oh, what a colossal loss of life and meaning! All because we lack that one great gift of discernment.

Discernment - it is a very important grace that we need in our daily living - to make the right choices! Haste and Imbalanced judgements make up for the mistakes we land in. But the moment we realise that, we are called to return to the Lord, and be God's people. We need not think of what hour and what stage it is; it's never too late with God's love, as long as the will to return is nothing but genuine. 

 All that God wants is that we choose to say 'yes', when he calls! The choice is truly ours.