WORD 2day: Monday, 4th week in Ordinary time
February 3, 2020: 2 Samuel 15:13-14,30,16:5-13; Mk 5:1-20
The society today has many issues to sort but if there is something that seems to be having apparently no solution, it is the curse of compromises. It has no solution because one does not see it as a problem, and at times we find unlimited justification for such compromises. We learn to live with any thing, for that matter, within a very short span of time.
Just because Saul was a Benjaminite, today we see a man cursing David on Saul's account forgetting and justifying all that Saul did against David. How many compromises are made just because someone is on my side, known to me or related to me! Not that David was bereft of any of his own stupidities. Just because you have been chosen for something special doesn't make you special; it all depends on how firm and categorical you are on your choice of what is good, right and just.
The people in the Gospel were ready to live with the demoniac and the troubles he created. They were putting up with him for months and years, but they could not put up with Jesus even a day - they send him away from their countryside right away. Simply because, they didn't want too much of disturbance in their cosy lives. They ask Jesus to leave their neighbourhood because Jesus was intent on transforming everything and making them new. They were more for compromises than for true life giving choices.
The world has begun to put up with anything. Persons compromise on everything for certain gains and calculations. Would Jesus like it, if we his disciples had that way of life? It is important to ask myself today, would I give up on Jesus owing to this curse of compromise?