Are you into Deception?

 

5th Week Friday of Ordinary Time

Year One

Gen 3:1-8

Meditation

Are you into Deception?

The serpent is cunning and dangerous. It tempted the woman by saying, "If you eat the fruit from the tree of life, you will be like God, and you will know good and evil." The serpent does not say lies; it tells facts to be true, but it is a deception. Humans can never become Gods, and even if they know good and evil, they have to discern and choose good, which is hard to do without keeping the law of God.

Are we not into deception in our daily lives by the world's attraction?

Year Two

1 Kings 11:29-32

God speaks to us in signs and symbols. God's truths are universal, but the revelation to every person and every age is particular. Revelation is given as symbols and images. The kingdom of Israel is divided among the ten tribes like the cloak is divided into ten pieces. The division is hard to accept in life and in the world. But we see there is so much division in the world, starting from oneself to the topmost levels of nations in the world.

Though there are divisions in the world and around us, God is faithful to the family of David for the promise he made to him. We are to take note of God’s faithfulness in our lives. God is a faithful God who will keep his word and covenant with us. God makes personal pacts with us and keeps his pact with us, though one is unfaithful and does not deserve it.

Do you know God is faithful to us personally?

Gospel: MK 7:31-37

Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee in the region of the Decapolis. They brought to him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech, and they begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him aside in private, away from the crowd, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat and touched his tongue. Then, looking up to heaven, he sighed and said to him, ‘Ephphatha’, that is, ‘Be opened.’ And immediately, his ears were opened, his tongue was released, and he spoke plainly. Then Jesus ordered them to tell no one, but the more he ordered them, the more zealously they proclaimed it. They were astounded, saying, ‘He has done everything well; he even makes the deaf to hear and the mute to speak (MK 7:31-37).’

We become deaf and dumb when we are not open to God, others, and reality. An attitude of closeness is reflected in our behaviour, life, and relationship with God. Jesus came to help us ‘Be Open’.

Let us be open to God by allowing God to intervene in our lives; let us be open to others by allowing them to relate with us. In our openness, God works wonders and removes our deafness and dumbness.

Do I have the courage to be open to reality and life?

Fr Putti Anthaiah sdb

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