WORD 2day: Saturday, 30th week in Ordinary time
October 30, 2021: Romans 11: 1-2,11-12, 25-29; Luke 14: 1,7-11At times we dare ask that question: has God forsaken me? All the expression of an endless love on God's part notwithstanding, I ask that question, and wait for an answer - how cheeky!!! What really should the question be - has God forsaken me? or have I forsaken the Lord?
Forsaking, is not within the precincts of God. Being Forsaken - is an absolutely human parlance! God never forsakes, not even if it is the worst of beings that God is faced with. Because when God creates someone, God does so out of love! That love never changes, as does God's righteousness never change. God never forsakes... I will never forsake you, nor forget you, nor abandon you - that is God's eternal promise!
God's righteous love, accepts me whatever state I might be in. But at times, I reject God, keep myself away from God and remain indifferent towards God. I look for other things - human respect, worldly success, material affluence, social status and mundane glory! In this seeking, I forget God, I sideline God, I compromise God and finally, I forsake God! And then at a point on the brink of a total breakdown, I invariably come up with that question: why has God forsaken me? Jesus challenges us today: move ahead my friend!
Grow up and realise that it is not God who forsakes you; but you forsake God! Realise it... and then you will be truly able to move ahead and get on with God.