God is in charge!

WORD 2day: Monday, 10th week in Ordinary time

June 8, 2020: I Kings 17:1-6; Matthew 5: 1-12

We have today the all famous 'Beatitudes' from the Gospel according to Mathew. Jesus explains to us a set of blessedness, a definition that goes contrary to the definitions of the so called 'ordinary world'. It seems as if St. Paul took the cue from here to write those beautiful wisdom: "Do not be conformed to the world, but... discern what is the will of God - what is good and acceptable and perfect" (Rom 12:2).

The Blessedness that Jesus presents is not something that demands that I do a lot of things and that I prove myself to be a great success in unbelievable feats! It just consists in surrendering to the Lord and realising that in everything, and in spite of everything, 'God is incharge!' 

The situation today all around the world, though seems more tolerated than a few weeks ago, seems all intriguing and challenging. Not just gotten over with a crisis so bad, we already see riots on the streets, war cries on the horizon and unnecessary feuds on the cards... situations such as these that try our patience, persons who get on to our nerves, moments that challenge our will to belong to and trust in God and temptations that avow to take us away from God...they are bound to be there... may be this day, may be this week we begin, or any day in my daily life: but what is going to be my attitude? 

Let us have a look at the attitude of Elijah in the first reading: he surrenders, and surrenders totally! That is the model, that is the example, that is the attitude of the beatitude, that is the mentality that realises, accepts and believes that in everything, 'God is incharge!' When I do that, my needs will be miraculously met: even a raven could do the bidding of the Lord, don't we see?