The Light of God’s Word!

Monday, September 22, 2025

Ez 1:1-6; Lk 8: 16-18

Today’s Gospel highlights the transforming power of God’s word. 

In his teaching, Jesus shows that God’s word contains the properties of light, which, while illuminating the way, guides our direction in life. Hence, the psalmist sings, ‘Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light for my path’ (Ps 119:105). 

For this reason, Jesus emphasizes that the recipients of God’s word have a bigger responsibility – the responsibility to live out the true meaning of the word that reaches us. 

Since God’s Word is light that is meant to shine, the recipient cannot keep it hidden or idle without putting it to what it is meant to be. Thus, any attempt to hide the light of God’s word amounts to a betrayal of its abiding presence in us. 

The word of God, which we also understand as truth, aims at the transformation of the individual recipients. However, its work is not over. The influence it leaves behind is so compelling that it begins to change others through us. In that sense, the inner transformation of the recipients will offer a convincing testimony to others to enable their faith in Jesus. 

Thus, God’s word guides the individual believer and builds the believing community. 

Let us pray that we may pay heed to the promptings of God’s word to transform our lives and, through us, the lives of others. 

Fr. Dhinakaran Savariyar