Choice! the choice of God and for God!

WORD 2day: Saturday, 15th week in Ordinary time

July 16, 2022: Micah 2: 1-5; Matthew 12: 14-21 

Jesus was living dangerously. But he chose to, for the sake of the Reign of God. He stuck his neck out for the poor, for the oppressed, the marginalised, the ostracised, the exploited, the forgotten in the society. He believed that the Reign of God belonged to them. His life was a hope to the least, the last and the lost. 

In this choice, Jesus was making present the God of the Old Testament who sided the oppressed, who stood by the just in their struggles and who kept watch over the persons who strove to live according to God's will. The first reading points out the choice of God, the choice for the poor and the suffering. This predilection on God's part distinguished Jesus and the choices he made. His choice was, the choice of God. There apparent and real dangers, and Jesus knew it well.

If this is what choice of God is all about... choice for us, for our well being, specially when we do not deserve it even a bit, then how do we respond to it? By making a choice for God, a choice for the Reign. Jesus has left us a hard lesson for usin and through his life.

Nothing could stop him from proclaiming the Reign of God for he knew he had come precisely for that, to establish the Reign of the God of Truth, the God of the suffering, the Lord of the least, the protector of the lost, the hope of the last. Understanding the choice of God, we are impelled to make our choice... our choice for God.

Our identity has to be our Choices, may they be forever in keeping with the choices of God!