First Reading - Job 38:1,12-21,40:3-5
Gospel - Luke 10:13-16
The life is full of mysteries. We need spiritual eyes to see through the mysteries of life. The readings of today invite us to grow in our spiritual vision to see and acknowledge God's works in our lives.
The first reading manifests the great wisdom God in the creation of everything. After all painful journey of Job, finally God confronts Job. God takes Job through the complexity of creation to its grandeur. Job discovers that they all bear the wisdom of God, from the tiniest creation to the giantest being and from heavenly creation to earthly inhabitants; they all inhere the wisdom of God. In fact, God tells Job that in everything is hidden His wisdom which is incomprehensible to human mind. Job ultimately realises that before the incomprehensible wisdom of God, his pains and miseries give way. The passage is reminds us all that the wisdom of God is at work in our lives and in our every situation. It's certainly incomprehensible but they all come to its fulfilment at the end, hence, for our situations in life which are incomprehensible to us, we must accept them in faith believing in the wisdom of God behind that.
In the gospel, Jesus pronounces 'alas' for Chorazin and Bethsaida (Jewish territories) and compares them with Tyre and Sidon (gentile territories). The 'alas' is pronounced because of their spiritual blindness to see the hands of God manifested through the miraculous works of Jesus. The comparison made by Jesus of these two cities with the gentile lands is show the gravity of their negligence (sin).
Dear friends, God has worked many signs and wonders in our lives but we sometimes forget to acknowledge that. The gospel shows that the spiritual blindness can turn out to be a great sin in our lives. Jesus worked many signs in those Jewish cities but people failed to acknowledge God's work; they failed to give glory to God. Jesus holds them accountable for their negligence and indifference towards God's works. We need to keep our spiritual eyes open to see God's works active in our lives. Actually the first reading also appears as a reminder for Job that God's wisdom is embedded in the creation and everything that is in existence, there is a need to spiritual eyes to see them and accept God's wisdom in our lives. The question of suffering whether in our lives or in the lives of others has a response of submission to God's wisdom. Our submission to God's wisdom or plan comes when we are to see God's hand in our lives. Let's pray always in the words of Reinhold Niebuhr, (1892–1971) "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
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