Monday, March 4, 2024
2 Kgs 5:1-5; Lk 4:24-30
In today’s Gospel, Jesus demonstrates ‘subversion’ as Divine Justice!
The method of the use of non-Israelite exemplars like the widow in Zarephath and Naaman the Syrian following the previous examples like the Queen of Sheba and Ninevites (Mt 12:38-42) shows that Jesus is tilting the balance.
By giving praise to Gentiles as examples of faith, Jesus destroys the Jewish pride as ‘God’s Chosen People.’
Secondly, Jesus holds that, not by qualification based on one’s birth but only through faith and moral worth one can inherit God’s Kingdom.
Jesus makes it clear to them that the Kingdom is not a ‘given’ but ‘earned.’
We receive God’s grace when we commit ourselves to earning God’s Kingdom.
By what he does, Jesus does not mean to put the Jews down but to lift them up, though he is misunderstood.
Let us pray for the grace to ‘earn’ God’s Kingdom by imitating the example of Jesus.
Fr. Dhinakaran Savariyar
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