To be the compassion of God

WORD 2day: Monday, 14th week in Ordinary time

July 6, 2020: Hosea 2:16, 17c-18, 21-22; Matthew 9: 18-26

We begin to listen to prophet Hosea from today... and Hosea brings out an intense dimension of God's love towards us. He offers the analogy of a spousal love to the relationship between God and God's people. A reminder to us, of the how compassionate God is towards us God's people. The central call is that we realise the Comapassion that God is.

Jesus brings out the same compassion in his own way, his heart goes out to the woman with the suffering and his tender love reaches out to the girl on the death bed. The readings present to us Jesus, as the compassion of God and in doing so has an underlying commission to us. As we are given to understand and acknowledge Jesus as the Compassion of God, we are called and challenged to be the compassion of God in our own way, wherever we are and in whatever we do.

In a culture that is widespread today where the very meaning and implication of love is misunderstood or insensitively neglected, when faithfulness and mutual commitment in family living is more and more under crisis, when possessions and positions mean much more than persons... the message is truly challenging. It gets more challenging, with the crisis the world is going through right now, questioning all the securities that we have been always dreaming of and relying on.  

Today, let us be conscious of every moment when the Lord gives us an opportunity to be God's compassion to others in our own way, beginning from within our families and our lockdown set ups. Though little deeds, they might go a long way in making the day blessed for us and for the others.