The Journey: with grace and confidence!

WORD 2day: Saturday, 1st week in Ordinary time

January 18, 2025 - Hebrews 4: 12-16; Mark 2: 13-17

The Word today is about the Word! A familiar passage that reminds us of the living Word, the dynamic and and powerful Word, which knows our innermost thoughts. This part from the letter to the Hebrews is not certainly one of its kind. Because we have a equally profound precedent in Psal 139, which tells us that the Lord knows us through and through; even before a word is on our lips, a thought is on our mind, the Lord knows them all...at times this can be frightening, isnt it?

Knowing how weak we are and how vulnerable and faint hearted we could be, naturally a proposition of this sort can be bewildering. How disastrous it could be that someone knows my thoughts, while I hide and harbour there quite some things that I cover up with my uncanny smiles and sugar coated words! For I alone know who I really am and what my interior is all about... these are obviously truthful fears. But the Word says, these do not matter, and that we could approach the mercy throne of the Lord with confidence. But how - that's would be an instant question in our mind!

Jesus answers that in the Gospel: yes, I know you are weak, your are tempted, you fall, you fail, you give in, you compromise, you lie, you have your private life... but these are no reasons for me to reject you. In fact, these are reasons, I have come in search of you! I am here for you; I am here with you and I am here to stand by you to transform you! God chooses the weak, the vulnerable, the sinners. And hence, we can approach the mercy seat, with that childlike trust in the Lord. 

On our journey of faith therefore, we are invited to keep marching, with grace and confidence!