Monday, August 17, 2009

20th Week, Ordinary Time, Tues, 18.08.09

1st Reading: Judges 6:11-24
Gospel: Mt 19:23-30

Page after page of the Bible speaks about a peculiar way of God.

It's about how God would choose the weak and holy to accomplish a difficult and even seemingly impossible task.

We see this in Abraham, Moses, David, Mary, just to name a few.

It is like how Mary's Magnificat would put it: He casts the mighty from their thrones and raises the Holy.

We see this again in the 1st reading. Gideon was the least important of the weakest clan of the smallest tribe of Israel.

Yet God chose him to be the one to deliver Israel from the oppression of their enemy.

Indeed, as Jesus would reiterate in the gospel: What is impossible for men, is not impossible for God.

So when it comes to carrying out God's will or God's plan, the only obstacle is the limitation posed in the human mind.

So if people are saying "Cannot!", then we should be saying "Why not?!".

It is only when we know we are weak, that God will make us strong.

By ourselves, anything is impossible. But with God, everything is possible.