Ready and Willing

WORD 2day: Thursday, 1st week in Ordinary time

January 14, 2021: Hebrews 3: 7-14; Mark 1: 40-45

If you wish, you could make me well, prays the man with leprosy! What does God wish for us? God wills that we live to the full, that we live every day and every moment to the utmost, regardless of the situation that we find ourselves in. For I know the plans I have for you, plans for your welfare and not for your ruin, says the Lord through Jeremiah (29:11). When it comes to giving us life, and fullness of life, God is ever ready and always willing. The question is, are we?

Are we ready and willing, to listen to the Lord and live up to the status that the Lord had given us: to be coheirs with Christ. Just as the man says to the Lord in the Gospel passage today, the Lord says to each of us - if you wish, you could be coheirs with me to the Reign! Again the question is, are we ready and willing?

To be ready is to be prepared to act, to respond and to face a situation. It consists of being aware of what we could possibly be encountering, to be equipped to face that situation and to make the preliminary effort to live life to the full even in a changing scenario.

To be willing is even more fundamental...it is to make up one's mind to accept a situation, with all its exigencies. It involves trust and hope; trust that the Lord will always be in favour of our life to the full, and hope that nothing that happens is hidden from the omnipotent and beloved presence of God. Isn't that a disposition that we need to grow in?

The Lord wishes that we be well, be blessed and live our lives to the full... Are we ready and Willing?