What God wants of me!

WORD 2day: Monday, 31st week in Ordinary time

November 6, 2023 - Romans 11: 29-36; Luke 14: 12-14

Calculations of gain and loss, returns and rewards make an action limited to these considerations. This is the order of the day. Jesus, not only teaches us a consideration different from these, but lived it himself and challenges us to live by it, today. 

The consideration that he proposes is -'what God wants of me here and now'! 

Adopting that as my decisive criterion in life, requires of me two important attitudes: the first reading speaks of the first of the two attitudes - it is, an immeasurable awe and absolute entrustment to the Wisdom of God - acknowledging that that there can be no one more informed than the Wisdom of God and God who is Wisdom itself; secondly - placing others, especially the weak, the poor, the needy, the least and the last, as the center of my perspective on life, not looking at my own selfish and egoistic ends. 

When these two become my decisive attitudes, I can worthily say as St. Paul says in the reading today: 'From God and through God and for God are all things. To God be glory for ever. Amen.'