The God of the Living

WORD 2day: Saturday, 33rd week in Ordinary time 

November 21, 2020: Revelation 11: 4-12; Luke 20: 27-40

The God of the living - that is how Jesus presents his God and Father, and our God and Father. Resurrection is the foundation of our conviction that our life is not merely made of the few years that we spend on this earth. Our life is part of the Eternal Stream, that is God and we have but a few years here on earth. We come from, and we are meant for, a union that is eternal and all our efforts during this life has to be towards ensuring that union for ever. 

What would be the fallout if we had this truth right in front of our minds while we live? We would not unnecessarily fret to make ourselves comfortable at the cost of the other. We would not long to possess something or someone, leading to undue striving to control the other and manipulate situations. We would not harm others or harm the nature just because at present we would like to make more money or make life more easy. We would not calculate everything in terms of gain and profit and dividends and surplus.

These months have done this in a great sense - the uncontrollable dance of the disease, the threatening face of death, the gnawing claws of misery, the frightening stare of unemployment...how many forms of impermanence we have experienced... but have we changed in our attitudes? Time and again, something or the other - like a storm, or a flood, or an earthquake, or a fire - comes by to remind us of our vulnerability...but do we learn our lessons? How many times we get to stare into the eyes of death, may be our own dear ones, those known to us, famous personalities... seeing them make that last lap of journey in front of our eyes... does that in anyway change our mindsets?

Anyway, should we wait for such terrifying moments to repent and reset our values? Jesus offers us a wonderful criterion: the criterion of Resurrection. Live as Resurrection-people - it means the ability to see far ahead of this limited life we have! Live as people of the Eternity - it means living a life that will never end, will go on in its goodness and love. Live as people who really believe that your life does not end here and now... live as people who belong to the God of the living!