The Naked Truth - God alone is!

WORD 2day: Monday, 26th week in Ordinary time

September 26, 2022: Job 1:6-22; Luke 9: 46-50

Naked I came into this world and naked shall I leave it! God gave and God has taken it back. Blessed be the name of the Lord... The Word today presents to us Job as a brilliant example of a child of God! His properties burned, he remained calm. His cattle were taken, he bore it all. His servants were killed he held on to the Lord. His children died altogether, he broke down but in the bosom of the Lord! That was Job, of whom the Lord was proud of - a true child of God.

Jesus teaches a similar lesson too in the Gospel... your ego, your social status, your position and power, your possession and your attachments, your so-called achievements and conquests... nothing can stand the test of time. God alone will. Whether we believe or not, the Lord is. Whether we praise the Lord or not, the Lord is worthy of all the praise in the world. Whatever we do and whatever we are involved in, even without our own full knowledge of it, we are serving the purposes of the Lord. Ultimately that which shall prevail over everything is God's will. 

God alone is almighty and God's purposes alone give meaning to anything that exists. The truth finally is, who ever we are and whatever we have, everything will pass. A child will never have a problem in admitting that he or she is dependent - the child has no ego to safeguard. A child will never scheme to put the other down or to usurp what belongs to the other, for the child everything belongs to every one. That is the logic of the child that Jesus wishes that we grow in. And in that logic there is simplicity and truth, sincerity and humility. 

How important it is for us to realise and recognise the naked truth: that God alone is, and God alone will forever be.