+ Our gospel passage today shows an angry Jesus. He is
frustrated and upset with the stubbornness and hard-heartedness of the common
folk who were so spiritually dazed and numb that they couldn’t see what was
happening right in front of their eyes – and to their own kind, their own
people.
Jesus takes stock on his
recent past activities of preaching, teaching and miracle working, real true
miracles of restoration of health, and spirit, and mind and yet the people did
not take stock of themselves and turn away from and repent of their
narrow-vision, their cheating hearts, their ill gotten gains, their
unwillingness to truly help and love one another – and so he yells at the
people and tells them that if the works that he did there in there midst was
done to the sinful cities of ancient times – they surely would have recognized
the mercy and love of God who was so generously reaching out to them, and they
would have turned to him, converted to him and began to love him like never
before.
But – these people, who are in
the very presence of the awaited Messiah and Redeemer, do not recognize him in
the slightest – and so Jesus registers his displeasure. And not just for his
own tension release – but to truly awaken them to what is smack in front of
them.
But they remain stoic,
stonewalled, and pitiable.
God continues to work the same
and even greater wonders in our midst – are we open to his generosity, his love
and his compassion. Are we open to receive any and all the gifts that he has to
give, today?
Harden not your hearts today but
listen to the voice of the Lord!
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