Tuesday of 19th Week, Year II: reflection
Childlikeness: our vade mecum for the heavenly journey
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Reading: Mt 18:1-5,10,12-14
Have you
been worried about where and how to begin the heavenly race, which saint to
follow his/her footsteps, and which religious book to make your vade mecum?
Worry not, the help you seek is at your fingertips.
In today’s
gospel reading, Jesus gives us a simpler figure whose life we should imitate if
we want to enter the kingdom of God, a figure that is right before our eyes and
would not require making any extra effort to search about his/her lifestyle from
religious books and sites. He said: “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and
become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Dear
friends, Christ is inviting us to imitate the virtues of little children if we
want to gain entrance into God’s kingdom. Among the child-like qualities, humility,
innocence/purity, honesty and total trust stand out. Children are naturally
humble and depend on their parents for everything; they trust and obey their
parents because they believe their parents love them and will always give them
the best; they are pure in heart because they know no evil and can’t plan any
evil.
Like little
children, we are to pursue our ambitions with humility; we are to trust and
obey God always, believing that He knows the best and will always give us the
best at all times; we are to purge from our hearts all evils plans and sins so
that our childhood innocence will shine out once more; and we are to avoid all
traces of crookedness so that honesty and simplicity will mark every step we
take.
May your Tuesday
be richly blessed. Amen
Fr Isaac C.
Chima
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