WORD 2day: Monday, 6th week in Ordinary time
February 16, 2026 - James 1: 1-11; Mark 8: 11-13
During his life and ministry, Jesus was convinced that he had nothing to prove, to no one! He was what he was - the Son of God, the Word Incarnate. He spoke what he believed and lived what he spoke. That gave him an authority that the Pharisees and the Scribes could never understand. It came from his holistic self-understanding, an understanding in terms of the ONE who had sent him: "For I and the Father are one", he declared (Jn 10:30).
Many a time we identify ourselves with the riches we have, the social status we enjoy, the titles and the offices we hold, the adulation from others and the image that others have of us. We are concerned and fixated on achievements and social images we create of ourselves. But these are like the drooping flowers and the fading beauty, reminds St. James.
Our identity has to rest on that one thing that never changes - the truth that we are sons and daughters of the One God, that we are created in the image and the likeness of that One God who has loved us into existence. When we get this fact imprinted clearly on our hearts... no trial or doubt, no suffering or shock will ever affect our perseverance (Jas 1:4).
Let our life be founded on that unshakable foundation, the Lord, our Rock!