Monday of 10th Week in Ordinary Time, Yr. II: reflection
Theme: Do you wish to be blessed? Follow these paths
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Reading: Mt
5:1–12
Everyone
obviously needs blessings and desires abundance of blessings from God, but most
times, people do not know the paths to follow in order to receive these
blessings.
In the
gospel reading of today, Jesus went up on the mountain and showed his audience
and all of us the paths that lead to the blessings that we earnestly seek,
listing the characteristics of lives that will draw God's blessings. According
to him, those who want to be blessed must be poor in spirit, they must be meek;
they are those who hunger for righteousness, those who are merciful, those who
are pure in heart, those who are mourning, those who make peace, those who are
persecuted for doing what is right, those who are castigated for the sake of
Christ and those who are falsely accused on account of Christ. These are the
people who will be given a pat on the back on the last day and declared blessed
by God the Father.
Most times,
people tend to see those who drive big cars, hold prominent social positions,
host lavish parties, and lead otherwise luxurious lifestyles as blessed.
However, today's gospel has demonstrated that these attributes of life were
left off in Christ's list of qualities that lead to a blessed state.
May we,
therefore, follow Christ own paths, which have maximum assurance of leading us
to the blessed state that our hearts yearn for.
May God
bless the work of your hands this Monday.
Fr Isaac
Chima
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