Whenever we hear of a person or a group of people being chosen for a task or a mission, we will have some assumptions or presuppositions or expectations.
We might assume that this person or this group of people have the abilities or qualities for being chosen.
We might presuppose that they deserve the privilege of being chosen because of some talents or skills.
We will also expect them to fulfill the task or mission that they are chosen for.
Yet, for Israel, the Chosen people of God, such was not the case.
In fact, as St. Paul puts it in the 1st reading, they did everything contrary to their task or mission as the Chosen people of God.
Yet, in doing so, they ironically fulfilled the prophesies in the scriptures.
In a way, we can say that God made it straight even despite the crookedness of His Chosen people.
Indeed, it was God who chose Israel and it was God who fulfilled the mission of Israel.
It is God who chose us to be His people.
As His people, we have to learn the lessons from the history of Israel and to straighten up the crookedness of our lives.
We may have failed in the past but let not our hearts be troubled or lose faith.
Let us trust in Jesus who will show us the way of truth so that we will know how to live our lives.
We might assume that this person or this group of people have the abilities or qualities for being chosen.
We might presuppose that they deserve the privilege of being chosen because of some talents or skills.
We will also expect them to fulfill the task or mission that they are chosen for.
Yet, for Israel, the Chosen people of God, such was not the case.
In fact, as St. Paul puts it in the 1st reading, they did everything contrary to their task or mission as the Chosen people of God.
Yet, in doing so, they ironically fulfilled the prophesies in the scriptures.
In a way, we can say that God made it straight even despite the crookedness of His Chosen people.
Indeed, it was God who chose Israel and it was God who fulfilled the mission of Israel.
It is God who chose us to be His people.
As His people, we have to learn the lessons from the history of Israel and to straighten up the crookedness of our lives.
We may have failed in the past but let not our hearts be troubled or lose faith.
Let us trust in Jesus who will show us the way of truth so that we will know how to live our lives.