WORD 2day: Monday, 16th week in Ordinary time
July 20, 2020: Micah 6: 1-4, 6-8; Matthew 12: 38-42
"To act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with your God" - Micah presents a project of life in these precise words (Mic 6:8). It is a project that he gives to the people to walk in the Lord's ways and not to weary the Lord with their unfaithfulness and stubbornness. How different are we from the people whom Micah addresses today in the first reading? Aren't we just like the pharisees and the others who were incessantly asking for signs from the Lord?
Crying statues, bleeding icons, moving crosses... aren't they all time hits of the so-called religious minded people? And today, in the context of the present crisis... aren't we asking continuously the Lord to do something, while it has been the mean human intentions and excessive exploitation of the reality around that has led the whole humanity to varied crises thus far! Should we?
Of course, for us miracles are a daily feature, because our God is an awesome God. But looking for some strange phenomenon, exciting events and glamorous happenings, is not the "Christ"ian outlook of a miracle. For Christ, the miracle is in the hope that we can give each other; miracle is in the love that we share for every one around us; miracle is the everyday faith in the Lord and the resultant serenity amidst all the din that we find ourselves in.
Of course, for us miracles are a daily feature, because our God is an awesome God. But looking for some strange phenomenon, exciting events and glamorous happenings, is not the "Christ"ian outlook of a miracle. For Christ, the miracle is in the hope that we can give each other; miracle is in the love that we share for every one around us; miracle is the everyday faith in the Lord and the resultant serenity amidst all the din that we find ourselves in.
Let's resolve to do the right, love goodness and walk humbly with the Lord and we will see miracles all around us, on a daily basis!