WORD 2day: Tuesday, 20th week in Ordinary time
August 20, 2019: Judges 6: 11-24; Matthew 19: 23-30
The Lord's choices are curious, infact, strange! There is a series of them we can cite from both Old Testament and the New. Today's first reading presents to us one such personality - Gideon, a fear-stricken young man who defines himself as the least of all in Israel - is chosen by God and called, "Mighty Warrior". The numerous others like Jacob the less-stronger, David the puniest of the sons, Solomon the son of the coveted wife and over to the New Testament the uneducated fishermen and despised sinners as disciples and apostles - the list is endless.
The whole of Salvation History is accomplished in and through these so-called odd choices. One thing is very clear: "it is impossible for humans; but for God everything is possible." While the world and we ourselves look for something, God looks at something else and expects something totally different from us!
Infact, that which God sees and expects is the most appropriate and when that coincides with what I see and expect from myself - the miracle happens: the first becomes the last and the last becomes the first! What I need to know and follow is what St. Paul counsel the Romans in his letter (12:2): Do not conform to the standards of the world! Be renewed in Christ and you shall fit the standards of the Almighty.
The whole of Salvation History is accomplished in and through these so-called odd choices. One thing is very clear: "it is impossible for humans; but for God everything is possible." While the world and we ourselves look for something, God looks at something else and expects something totally different from us!
Infact, that which God sees and expects is the most appropriate and when that coincides with what I see and expect from myself - the miracle happens: the first becomes the last and the last becomes the first! What I need to know and follow is what St. Paul counsel the Romans in his letter (12:2): Do not conform to the standards of the world! Be renewed in Christ and you shall fit the standards of the Almighty.