Out of our minds!

WORD 2day: Saturday, 2nd week in Ordinary time

January 22, 2022: 2 Samuel 1:1-4,11-12,17,19,23-27; Mark 3: 20-21

Jesus today is considered out of his mind, by his own people. The reason was very simple - he was totally taken up with the others, with preaching, healing, feeding, befriending, forgiving, consoling, and so on. He had no time to care about himself. Food and drink were absent from his daily categories of thinking. Naturally people thought he was out of his mind.

Those who were around David that day when he lamented so bitterly for Saul and Jonathan, would have considered him too, out of his mind. At least Jonathan was his friend, but Saul? He was his rival, a threat who was trying to kill him! With Saul's death, should not David heave a sigh of relief - that is how the society would think. Even Jonathan, though being a friend, without him David has no block towards ascending to the throne! According to the world's standards, David should take advantage of the situation; nothing less! But David did not do that.

Jesus and David, seem to have a similar mind - not just out of mind as the people around judged, but a mind of God, a mind of genuine love, a mind that prioritised love over everything else. Today we do not dare to live that way because we are afraid the society will brand us 'out of our minds'. But the Lord? How the Lord would wish more and more of us go 'out of our minds'!