WORD 2day: Wednesday, 30th week in Ordinary time
Will only few be saved? Who will be saved and who will not be? These questions, it looks like, have been around from ages immemorial! Today in the Gospel, the disciples raise these questions in various modalities. Jesus not even once when he was asked, answered these questions in direct. He always gave an explanation that made them think more and think of something else!
Once Jesus narrated the parable of the camel and the eye of the needle and another time he explained to them that it is possible with God, and impossible with merely human effort. However today, he says there are no categories of people who would enter by default, neither are there selected races who would enter! Anyone can enter and everyone is invited to enter the Reign of God, provided they had the right disposition and the right life style!
St. Paul in the first reading explains what this disposition or life style has to be. It is simply, living our life wherever we are and whoever we are, in a manner that is pleasing to God. It is easy to blame the others or the situation for a life lived below the standard that is expected of us and the Lord today challenges us to 'strive to go through the narrow door'... that is the door that leads to the Reign!