Monday, October 16, 2023
Rom 1:1-7; Lk 11:29-32
Good Christians as the Sign!
In today’s gospel, we find Jesus disappointed that the people demand a sign to believe in him!
Ironically, the demand followed when Jesus just told them that ‘those who hear the Word of God and observe it are more blessed than his mother.’
Their demand frustrates Jesus because it is about a militaristic and political sign, overlooking the visible reality of the Kingdom of God taking root amidst them.
Jesus’ liberative and inclusive mission among the poor and marginalized are signs enough of God’s intervention in the lives of His people.
They are incapable of realizing the fact that Jesus is transforming the scenario bottom-up, just as opposed to their expectation of a top-down intervention of God through sensational displays.
Jesus invokes the examples of the Ninevites and the Queen of the South to demonstrate how the Gentiles embraced God more readily than the Chosen people.
Oftentimes, our view of God is restricted to some sensational and superficial expectations, rather than allowing God to move in us like a gentle breeze whose working model is more inward but definitive in bringing about our transformation.
Religion is not an external show-off. It is an internal transformation manifested externally.
In that sense, the transformed Christians are the signs that proclaim God, much better than loud cries.
Fr. Dhinakaran Savariyar
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