All things belong to God... even you and me!

WORD 2day: Wednesday, 15th week in Ordinary time

July 15, 2020: Isaiah 10: 5-7, 13b-16; Matthew 11: 25-27

All things have been handed over to me by my Father, says Jesus today in the Gospel. 'God as the author of history', has been a concept so strongly evinced by the narratives of the Old Testament. Even the super powers like Assyria and Babylonia were considered to be commissioned by the Lord to make certain twists and turns happen in history. This is the background against which Isaiah chides Assyria saying, they think they are the masters of their own destiny and the authors of their success. They fail to understand that there is someone far beyond and above them, who "sits in the heavens and laughs"(Ps 2:4) at the folly of the proud. 

This is an ongoing reality even today. Humanity as a whole, the scientific community at times, the political and economic super powers many a time, fall prey to this folly and create and cause atrocities that we have seen all through history. But the saddest part of it is the fact that the worst affected section of the society would be the poor, the innocent and the weak. How many inhuman justfications we have ready to rationalise such follies.

The Word recalls to us - the Lord scatters the proud hearted and raises the lowly (cf Lk 1:51); God reveals things to mere children and sends the haughty empty! All things are God's and from God everything draws its life and its sense. If I approach life with this sense, my worries find a way out, my concerns cringe to my feet and bearing my burdens become a child's play! 

What a saving wisdom it would be to recognise that all things belong to God, yes... even you and me, and all that we dream... everything belongs to God, and in God we live, move and have our being!