Sent with a mission

WORD 2day: Thursday, 4th week in Ordinary time

February 3, 2022: 1 Kings 2: 1-4, 10-12; Mark 6: 7-13

The Lord is the ruler of all. The Lord rules over the time and history. The Lord has an eternal plan for the well being of everything and everyone. Observing the injunctions of the Lord, following the Lord's ways and keeping the laws, David says, will make a person worthy of the promises of the Lord. It is after all, a simple and straight forward truth - keep to the original plan and the project of life, everything shall go well. 

The problems that we encounter today are all outcomes of the loss of this congruence with the plan of God... look at the climate crisis that we are experiencing, the threat of war and violence, the drastic discrepancy between the rich and the poor...and finally, even the pandemic that has been troubling the whole world for the past two years! Can we not see that there is somewhere something that has been twisted wrong and we are paying for it with these consequences?

That is why the Lord calls and commissions the people of God - to go and teach the world out there, to bear witness to a life in keeping with the plan of God, to give a model to those living in greed and insensitivity of the other. What if we are following the crowd and not really living up to the call given to us, as the people of God? Be it David, or Solomon, they give us a warning in their own life, how one can turn unfaithful to God's purposes, when one's own whims and fancies take the better of what is true and noble.

The challenge to us is that each of us realises that he or she has been sent with a mission on this earth, and not run behind the crowd, doing what they do and dying for what they die. Every day, in every way, I need to remind myself that I am sent with a mission; discerning what the Lord wants of me, here and now!