WORD 2day: Tuesday, 10th week in Ordinary time
June 9, 2020: I Kings 17: 7-16; Matthew 5: 13-16
Being salt, you are required to lose yourself and dissolve your identity in the whole lot. A disciple or an apostle of the Lord, loses oneself in doing what the Lord wants. At times the person will not even know why, but would do something risking many a thing, even one's own life - because God wants it so. That is being lost in the Lord, being lost in the whole, being lost in the entirety doing your little bit, certain that in your own way you have contributed to the holistic goodness.
Being light, you are required to burn yourself for the others to see. It is nothing but an imitation of the Son of God who gave up his divinity (Phil 2) and shone to be the light of the world (Jn 8:12). Burning does not only mean shining, it also means being consumed. What is burning is being consumed, and at a point of time, you will find nothing that remains - all for the sake of others! For some, that others could be the family, for some it could be the parish or the faith community, for some it could be the society at large... all for the sake of making things bright for the whole world.
Being salt, being light, is a life that is lived for others. A life that is lived for others, will never run itself out. The widow of Zarephath is challenged to think of the other before herself. She made up her mind do it and she witnessed an astounding miracle; and she herself becomes a miraculous witness referred to even by Christ himself (cf. Lk 4:26).
If we accept the same challenge in our day to day life, to place others before us, others' need before our's, others' concerns before our's, then we will witness the same miracle. Let us accept the challenge to be salt and light, that is to be Christlike, that our jars may never run dry!
Being light, you are required to burn yourself for the others to see. It is nothing but an imitation of the Son of God who gave up his divinity (Phil 2) and shone to be the light of the world (Jn 8:12). Burning does not only mean shining, it also means being consumed. What is burning is being consumed, and at a point of time, you will find nothing that remains - all for the sake of others! For some, that others could be the family, for some it could be the parish or the faith community, for some it could be the society at large... all for the sake of making things bright for the whole world.
Being salt, being light, is a life that is lived for others. A life that is lived for others, will never run itself out. The widow of Zarephath is challenged to think of the other before herself. She made up her mind do it and she witnessed an astounding miracle; and she herself becomes a miraculous witness referred to even by Christ himself (cf. Lk 4:26).
If we accept the same challenge in our day to day life, to place others before us, others' need before our's, others' concerns before our's, then we will witness the same miracle. Let us accept the challenge to be salt and light, that is to be Christlike, that our jars may never run dry!