To be the compassion of God...

WORD 2day: Monday, 14th week in Ordinary time

July 4, 2022: Hosea 2:16, 17c-18, 21-22; Matthew 9: 18-26

We begin to hear from Hosea from today... and Hosea brings out an intense dimension of God's love towards us. He offers the analogy of a spousal love to the relationship between God and God's people. A reminder to us, of the how compassionate God is towards God's children.

Jesus brings out the same compassion in his own way, his heart goes out to the woman with the suffering and his tender love reaches out to the girl on the death bed. The readings present to us Jesus, as the compassion of God and in doing so has an underlying commission to us. We are called and challenged to be the compassion of God in our own way, wherever we are and in whatever we do.

In these times when the very meaning and implications of love is misunderstood, misinterpretted or insensitively neglected, when faithfulness and mutual commitment in family living is more and more under crisis, when possessions and positions mean much more than persons... the message is truly challenging - to be the compasion of God to others. 

A prerequisite would be that we first open ourselves to that compassion of God... like that lady who sought to touch at least the elm of the garment of Christ! She knew touching Christ or Christ touching her would change the entire life for her and she believed so firmly in that. The world today needs to have this openness to God, to open ourselves to the touch of God! We too, with all our pious practices and devotions, may forget to really open the core of our hearts to the Lord. If only we allow the Lord to touch us, we shall be transformed into the Lord's compassion for everyone around us.

Today, let us be conscious of every moment when the Lord gives us an opportunity to be God's compassion to others in our own way. Though little deeds, they might go a long way in making the day blessed for us and for the others.