What am I doing to myself!

THE WORD IN LENT

Monday, Second week in Lent - March 14, 2022

Daniel 9: 4-10; Luke 6: 36-38

God favours the poor; God has not favoured these people; these are some statements we make in our limited capacity as human persons to express what God is and how God relates with us human persons! Because, as Jesus reveals to us - the perfection of God consists in the unconditional and impartial love that characterises God. Then is it wrong to say, God favours the poor or the humble or the weak?

No! It cannot be wrong, provided it is interpreted and understood right. It is not that God takes a side or favours someone, but some one by being poor, by being humble and being vulnerable, places himself or herself in a better position to experience the favours of God, the goodness of God and the protecting help of God. It is natural and logical, isnt it? That, one who is rich or powerful, is so taken up with oneself, that he or she has no space for God in life; naturally depends on oneself and not on God. 

The same logic is true about those who do good to others, or those who judge others and those who are calculative with others. They are accordingly disposed to either the goodness of the Lord or a judgement from the Master. Hence apart from the question, as to what am I doing to the other - giving them, loving them or judging them, there is yet another pertinent question one could post to oneself! That is, what am I doing to myself!

In our stubbornness not to forgive others, in my hardheartedness of hesitating to do good to others, in my arrogance of judging others, I need to really take care of one thing: what am I doing to myself?