The Lord shall be our glory!

WORD 2day: Saturday, 25th week in Ordinary time

September 28, 2019: Zechariah 2:5-9, 14-15; Luke 9: 43-45

Praising the Lord at the marvels that happen and thanking the Lord when everything goes the way we think - they are not too difficult though even that needs a heart that is grateful and eyes that are attentive. To be mindful of the struggles even at moments of rejoicing, being convinced that it is in those struggles that the real meaning lies, not in these momentary successes we could be taken up with - that is true Focus! This is what Jesus teaches us today.

If to be Christ's disciples is to 'put on Christ's mind', the real mind of Christ is revealed in his state of being absolutely focused on doing what God wants! Jesus was clear about his mission. Though the disciples were excited after the event of transfiguration and the healing of the possessed, Jesus gently but firmly brings them back not to get lost along with the noisy crowd and lose track of where they are bound to, towards that moment of Truth - when Jesus would prove that nothing else matters to Him when it is the question of doing the will of the One who sent Him. 

When the Lord promises in the first reading, "I am coming to dwell among you and I shall be your glory", it is not a promise of absence of struggles and testing situations; but an assurance of presence, the presence of a person who knows what we are going through, who has gone through what we are going through and who holds our hand all through, whatever be the situation we are going through! That is a promise beyond anything we need! 

Not the prosperity of wealth, not the fulfillment of your wishful dreams, not the success that your prove before the world, not the projects you get through establishing your name, not any of these, says the Lord, but I shall be your glory! If only we fix our eyes and focus our minds on the Lord and what the Lord wants of us, the Lord shall be our glory!