Living the tomorrows at the cost of todays

WORD 2day: Monday, 29th week in Ordinary time

October 21, 2024 - Ephesians 2:1-10; Luke 12: 13-21

The message from the Word today follows from that of yesterday. We belong to God, who has made us God's people in spite of our human tendencies and wordly inclinations. We are raised up to the status of sharing the new life that the Risen Lord offers, sheerly because of the boundless mercy of God. The life that we have is a gift, a gratuitous gift that the Lord gives us to cherish! Yes, life is to be lived, to be lived to the full knowing well that it has been given free, absolutely free.

The tendency prevalent today is to fend so much for the tomorrow, that the today is totally sacrificed. For instance, when we see persons who are mad after clicking snaps on their cellphones, and worse still, selfies, we know that they are busy photographing the present moment for their memory. They are so worried about having a memory stored, that they fail to live the present in its entirety. The subtle beauties of the present and the finest details of its essence are so easily lost. 

In general, in the human life situation, there is so much of worry about the future that we infact are all the time living our tomorrows at the cost of today. Life is given to us to live, and not to worry. If only we are convinced that we belong to God, our worries about tomorrow will be mellowed down, permitting us to live our present to the full. 

If today we are called to render an account of our life, would we be able to say, yes I have lived it to the full?