The History of the People of God - 6. The Lord in Search

WORD 2day: Saturday, First week in Ordinary time

January 13, 2024 - 1 Samuel 9:1-4,17-19,10:1; Mark 2:13-17

The Word presents to us today two persons - one, who went in search of the donkeys and the other, who went in search of the sinners... both for the sake of their fathers' wish! Though the comparison is strange, the fact is that both are kings... one, the first king of Israel and the latter, the eternal King of heaven and earth.

We may consider ourselves worthless and as dumb as donkeys, but the truth is that the Lord is in search of us. Many a times we speak of a humanity that is in search of God, but how much more true it is to think of the Lord who is in search of each of us. That is the experience of the people of God, the people whom the Lord has chosen as His own and made the children of God. The call for us here, is to open ourselves up to the Lord; invite the King into our hearts; and the King shall reign forever in our lives and through us, reach out to many more who are lost and are searching for themselves!

I do realise that I have been too allegorical here, but the message is simple and straight: to be forever open to the Lord, in a sense of daily conversion and repentance, ever growing into worthier children of God, better people of God. At times, we may not be understood by all, just as Jesus found himself misunderstood, misinterpreted and misjudged. Should that matter to us, as a chosen people of God. 

The challenge is to go ahead and remain with the Father's will. The King has searched us out and chosen us as His own - should we not believe in it? Let us never take off our minds, the Lord who is constantly in search of us.