Recognising the wells of Salvation

WORD 2day: Wednesday, 29th Week in Ordinary time

October 23, 2024: Ephesians 3: 2-12; Luke 12: 39-48

Jesus continues his instruction as to how we need to be prepared for that hour of reckoning at any point of time in our life. In fact Jesus is ridiculing all the funny discussions and calculations about when that hour will come - some self proclaimed eschatological quacks make much ado of the end and its timings and miss the entire point that Jesus is driving home here. Picking the cue from them, there are those who speak as if they know everything under the sun, or even above it!

Let us not miss the central point, that Christ is here, right here amidst us and he does not need to come from elsewhere! Christ is a mystery and no one can understand it; one can only experience or live that mystery! So, let us not look at the Second Coming as a day or as a moment when everything will come to a stand still and there will be an UFO coming down from the sky... just give up on that crap! And all the exercise of calculating the time and the hour and predicting it with such precisions... let us grow up, please!

No matter when and where, we have been instructed what to do and why to do it. Let us take care how we do it - not seeking human attention but going by merely God's approval. The wells of Salvation are within each of us! The Lord has placed God's Word and God's law within each of us. We know it well, when something is right and we see it when it is wrong. There is no need for an external apparatus for this recognition. 

The internal system of convictions and criteria that makes me draw inspiration and direction from within me... doing nothing but good, speaking nothing but good, thinking nothing but good, no matter how unlikely the returns are, or what the consequences would be. These are the wells of salvation - we better begin to recognise them within us and live our life in grace!