Mind your Business!

WORD 2day: Friday, 22nd week in Ordinary time

September, 4, 2020: 1 Corinthians 4: 1-5; Luke 5:33-39

At times we mind everybody else's business, forgetting the all important business that we have, our life! With the social network occupying such an ample space in the public domain, the private domain begins to shrink to a drastic minimum. People seem to evaluate everybody else, judge everyone and pass not merely comments but judgments on others. There are others who try to create public opinions which are untrue, to have their way in everything. There are still others who tend to live their lives totally based on the likes and dislikes, shares and subscriptions, making real life so virtual and flimsy.

The Word today instructs us to mind just our businesses. How hard can one try to satisfy everyone around? Is it worth the effort at all? How many lives are made so boring and barren merely out of living up to the expectations of the world around! The secret of a truly fruitful and meaningful life is: knowing your business and going about it.

Knowing who we are, as St. Paul shares in his letter today, we are called to be Stewards of the Lord. What is expected of a steward is that he or she is found worthy of the one whose stewards one is! Knowing who we are and striving to be faithful to it, is the Christian meaning to our life. Christ did just that. He knew he was the Son of God and he lived his life to the full worthy of the identity that he inherited from the Lord. 

We are called to be the Lord's stewards, and we need to live worthy of that call, notwithstanding the praises or critiques, the affirmations and the discouragements that might come our way. If we try to patch up our life with unfitting elements merely because those around us are looking for it, if we mix up unblending elements just because the world around enjoys it... we may lose the true sense of our calling. The best thing amidst all the mixed voices around is... to know and mind our business!