God first and God-trust...

WORD 2day: Thursday, 27th week in Ordinary time

October 10, 2019: Malachi 3: 13-20; Luke 11: 5-13

'Why do the just suffer and why do the evildoers prosper?' - this has always been an unresolved question in history. We read from Prophet Malachi, "now we have reached the point when we call the arrogant blessed." It looks really and so drastically prophetic! It seems to be reflecting what we see today, in our present context - with all the importance given to money, power, possession, pleasure and comfort, the arrogant seem to be the most blessed!

There is yet another fundamental question, that is subtler and more crucial and that is: what is good and what is evil; what it means to be righteous and what it means to be wicked. Confusion reigns in the world today, in the name of rights and liberty, in the cover of broad-mindedness and lateral thinking, in the pretext of respect for the individual and promoting self-actualisation, there are so many fundamental values being compromised these days. 

Both these grand queries are reflected upon in the Word today which, perhaps provides us with the criteria to be acceptable in the eyes of God: To give the first place to God and things that pertain to God and to trust in God with no doubts whatsoever!  

When these criteria are lived in our daily life, there will indeed be no necessity for the questions we referred to a while ago! The first criterion will take care of the greed and manipulation that governs the world today; and the second will make us humble to receive everything from the hands of God, so that we look at ourselves and at each other as brothers and sisters of the One Father and Mother!