Grasping the sense of God's Plan

THE WORD AND THE FEAST 

September 30, 2022: Remembering St. Jerome 
Job 38: 1, 12-21, 40: 3-5; Luke 10: 13-16

'From Knowledge to Ignorance' is a famous book written by one of the Spiritual thinkers of India. It may sound a bit odd but there is deep truth in that perspective and that is the message of the Word today. We run the risk of getting too used to the great things that God keeps doing for us. At times, due to some setbacks that we could possibly experience, or due to some troublesome moments, we might tend to forget all that has gone by so well. Or we are so filled with our so-called logical findings and scientific conclusions, that we do not expect anything different from what we think!

In the first reading, God challenges the attitude of questioning the eternal designs of God. We lack the Wisdom to understand the plans of God in all its details but with the little that we are capable of, we pretend to be masters of everything! It is important that we realise our limitedness inspite of our great acomplishments, that we acknowledge the wisdom in God's plan inspite of our nothingness. St. Jerome understood this well and impresses on our minds, by his life and his works, the importances of opening ourselves up to the living and active Word of God. 

If our eyes are truly open to what is happening around, if our ears are genuinely open the Words that come from above, if our hearts are absolutely open to the promptings of the Lord, then we would open our lives to the Lord and we grasp the eternal sense in the mind of God. These - the open eyes, the open ears and the open heart - are what we call the openness to receive, the humility to learn, the ignorance according to the so-called scientific standards. But it is in this ignorance or readiness to learn that the Lord becomes present to us, and we begin to grasp the sense of God's Plan.