Good morning good people, May the Lord bless you with peace and good in the Holy Spirit.
It is 26th August 2021.
We reflect on 1 Thessalonians 3:7-13 and the Gospel of Matthew 24:42-51.
During this pandemic, one thing you would have heard, or hearing is that end is near. What we all require today is to be aware of God’s presence in our life to watch and awake.
“Those who respect the Lord will live and be satisfied, unbothered by trouble.” (Prov.19:23).
The reading of the day spells out about the coming of the Lord. There are three comings of the Lord. His coming in one’s life, at the end of the life and the second coming at the end of the world. We need to be alert and watchful because any coming can take place at any point of our life.
Throughout this week, we were reflecting that we are encountered people called to live a life of sincerity, honesty without duplicity and double standard living. As encountered people, we need to offer a counterculture that brings out the Gospel values.
His holiness once said as voiced out the need of the hour is the counterculture: “evangelical charity and fraternity in a variety of fields, particularly our faithful witness to the sacredness and dignity of human life. Living a life of joy, mercy and engagement is the counterculture we all need to seek.”
Living a counterculture is one of the ways of doing God’s will. By returning ourselves to the pace and rhythm of God, by loving genuinely people and creation without any conditions and expectations and letting God into our lives and believing that we are entitled to the blessings of the Lord.
The Gospel invites us to “Stay awake, for you cannot know the day your Lord is coming.”
To be awake means not to remain idle but working for the Lord, for the welfare of humanity and community. St. Paul boldly said, “Anyone who will not work should not eat.”
No one knows the coming of the Lord and so we all need to be alert and watchful doing the goods we can and avoid evil and sins on every occasion.
May the Lord help us to face the day with hope not with fear and with blessings not with burdens. May God bless you.