WORD 2day: Tuesday, 7th week in Ordinary time
February 25, 2020: James 4: 1-10; Mark 9: 30-37
Humble yourself before the Lord and the Lord will lift you up! Humility - the message continues today from yesterday. Humility is knowing the truth, realising its real sense and accepting it without regrets. The Lord has created you and knows you through and through; there is nothing that can escape the Lord and there is absolutely no need to hide it from the Lord! The Lord loves us anyway.
If only we know and understand this truth, and be convinced of it, that in spite of our weaknesses the Lord loves us - it would do so much good to ourselves and to the entire humanity. Because it would lead to two crucial dispositions in life that is so blatantly missing in the world today.
The first disposition is that, what we are is willed by God and hence we need not compare ourselves with anybody else. All that we have is given by God and hence all that we need to do is be grateful and live our life to the full. When we are not at home with what we are and not satisfied with what we have, the world is pushed into the malice of greed, exploitation and criminality.
The second disposition is that, we are loved and all that we need to do is remain in that love, grow in that love and share that love with everyone around. Like a child who feels secure in the arms of its father or mother, and is able to smile at everyone around without any fear or ill will, so should we be in the hands of the Lord who loves us without measure.
When these dispositions find their place within our hearts, we would never be anxious about lifting ourselves up, but we shall be lifted up; the Lord shall lift us up.