Towards the Author of Life

WORD 2day: Tuesday, last week in Ordinary time

November 23, 2021: Daniel 2: 31-45; Luke 21: 5-11

Both in the book of Daniel and from the Gospel today, we see a prediction of destruction. The destruction and its prediction need not be seen as something totally unexpected. Already from the very constitution of the so called kingdoms that Daniel speaks of and from the types of people spoken of by Jesus, we see that destruction was inevitable and imminent - because of the choices that they had made.

Jesus makes it clear in the Gospel today that there is no point in running after predictions and signs, or after fortune tellers and soothsayers... at times even the so called evangelists and preachers behave like these cheap sensation creators. Speaking of spectacular signs, threatening with worrisome developments and staging incredulous events as a proof of their predictions... these are not strange sights anymore. Every religion has its own set of so-called godmen who are fake, and sadly quite a few from the Christian fold appear on the list. 

There is something that we are called to observe and examine from even the minutest of happenings around us and within us. When we are attentive to these, the wider and larger reality, comes into picture with God's plan for universal salvation. We are called that we make clear cut choices that prevent us from destruction and ruin, and instead unite with the Lord who alone is the author of life.