The King in search...

WORD 2day: Saturday, 1st week in Ordinary time

January 18, 2020: 1 Sam 9: 1-4,17-19,10:1; Mark 2: 13-17

The Word presents to us today two persons...one, who went in search of the asses and the other, who went in search of the sinners... both for the sake of their fathers' wish! Though the comparison is strange, the fact is that both are kings...one the first king of Israel and the latter the eternal King of heaven and earth. 

We may consider ourselves worthless and dumb as asses, but the truth is the Lord is in search of us. Many a time, we speak of the humanity that is in search of God...but how much more true it is to think of the Lord who is in search of each of us. What good it would do, if only we realise the fact that we are a bit lost, each of us in one's own way! And to understand the fact the Lord is continuously in search of us, through persons, events, and daily experiences. And finally to submit to the One who is looking for us...that we may be found, that we may be embraced, that we may be made full, wholesome, healthy and holy!

Let us open ourselves up to the Lord; invite the King into our hearts; and the King shall reign for ever in our lives and through us, reach out to many more who are lost and are searching for themselves! The message today might sound too allegorical, but it is simply this: to be forever open to the Lord, in a sense of daily conversion and repentance, ever growing to be more and more, children of God, the Eternal King.