The Storm and the Calm

WORD 2day: Saturday, 3rd week in Ordinary time

February 1, 2020: 2 Samuel 12: 1-7, 10-17; Mark 4: 35-41

"It is you!" - the famous finger of God against David, is the picture we are left with today by the Word. The Lord loved David, but David slipped into godlessness; however, when God pointed it out to him, like an inamorata clinging back to the beloved after a split, David comes back with remorse and love so tenderly balanced. 

It takes a special grace to recognise and accept it when one is convicted by the Lord. The Lord knows our innermost thoughts and even our motivations, and hence even a choice or action that seems 'good' in the eyes of those around, need not always qualify for the 'acceptable' tag in the eyes of the Lord. But it takes that illumining grace to see, understand and accept the truth.

It is another experience of grace to respond in an appropriate manner to a fault pointed out. Even when David realised he had sinned, he never panicked or never gave into guilt... he felt sorry and bounced back to the love of God, because he knew and he was convinced that the Lord was with him and the Lord loved him above anything else.

The storms may rage all around us, but we can still remain calm if only we realise the Lord is with us and the Lord loves us above all else. When Jesus woke and rebuked the sea and the storm, he did not rebuke only them. He also looked at the disciples and made them realise how foolish and faithless they were. Aren't we sometime like that, if not most of the times?

When the Lord is for us who can be against us? The Storm and the calm go side by side for an authentic Christian! Let us be calm... let us be still and know the Lord.