Lord, that I may see...

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

October 5, 2024 - Job 42:1-3,5-6,12-17; Luke 10:17-24

Job lived on to see his children and the children of his children, upto the fourth generation, says the first reading. Happy the eyes that see what you see, exclaims Jesus in the Gospel to the disciples, indicating to them how blessed they were! The message of the Word today is: what we see is not merely what we see, but what we are given to see! 

As Job observes so clearly what he came to see (now that I have seen you with my own eyes), we are given to see certain things in life which we would never see otherwise. It is a gift we need to ask from the Lord to see - to see what we need to see, to see what would give us the true repentance of heart, to see that which will offer us the fullness of the sense of our life, to see that which will clarify to us the true vocation we have from God. 

Jesus explains it further in the Gospel. Not every one can see, but those who are destined to see, those to whom God reveals it - the children, the humble, the obedient, the gentle, the true children of God - only they would be able to see what they have to see. Not that it is not there, but the aggressive, the haughty and the self-centered will never get to see it. They would be too busy looking down on others, manipulating others for their good, take persons and their goodness for granted, all too taken up with themselves. 

The call for us is, that we be attentive to what God wants us to see, to see what God reveals to us and to be able to see what would give us the right sense of our life, here and now - so that we may live worthy of our eternal rewards. Let our prayer today be, 'Lord, that I may see!'