Anticipate the incredible

The WORD in ADVENT - Second Monday

December 5, 2022: Isaiah 35:1-10; Luke 5: 17-26

When the Lord comes you witness the incredible! The Lord is around and when you let the Lord into your life, things you consider incredible just happen from nowhere. It is not a mere imagination or a wishful thinking, it was a prediction based on concrete experiences. Israel certainly had experienced great things in history. 

Isaiah's prediction is made true by the event in the Gospel and the reaction of those high priests and scribes. Jesus was very subtle in making them understand that he had the power from God and with God anything was possible! Some were praising God for the experience, and there were others who were angry and upset about the same events - now arises the crucial question. What made the difference between these two sets of people?

One set of people were ready to expect the unexpected, anticipate the incredibe and praise God for what they say. The other set, the so-called learned and "theologically formed" set of people were so fixed in their ideas that they would impede even God from doing what they did not expect from God. What a presumptious way of living!

In our lives too the Lord stands knocking at the door, to change things and to change the way we see things and to change the entire experience of humanity... but it is upto us to let the Lord in. We would let him in when we are able to expect the unexpected, behold the unprecedented, and anticipate the incredible - for with God all things are possible, and nothing is impossible!