Life is a
blessing that we need to embrace, it will come with its temptations, it will be
sometimes threatened, but all the goodness that comes with it: physically,
intellectually find themselves in one goodness that of God the Father. This has
the following consequences when we can put it in terms of personal relationship
and encounter. All the conflicts, use of goods, intellectual capacity builds
itself in the view of what we can pick from the scripture and who Jesus is to
each one of us. Sometimes Jesus looks at us and invites us but we think it is
impossible to do that what he is calling us to do. "Jesus looked at them
and said, "With men, it is impossible, but not with God; for all things
are possible with God" (Cf. Mk
10:27). We need to get to the whole integral perspective of what we are
looking for in our lives today, all whatever we are looking for is related to
God the Father, that self-abandonment, to start walking with Him in the sense
that every day one has to ask the question of who am I? constant evaluation and
reviewing of life as a subject, identity, with whom do I live within my life?
The plurality of beauty, walking through the garden of flowers, mountainous
places, a place of solace.
TEMPTATION
The stress of
life, this can only be understood in the form that is relational between the
individual with God and the fellow brothers. Sometimes we enter into
ingratitude of life, lack of inner sense of origin but into idolatry, the
poverty that surrounds us, the injustice we confront every day. But the poverty
that Jesus is talking about is that of hope, not that of misery. In that he who
is faithful in very little is faithful also in much; and he who is dishonest
also in much (Cf. Lk 16:10). If we
are poor Jesus will have interest in us, because we are able to say Jesus is
Lord: It's the poverty of the heart, living positively, with limits but
accepting my limits, sobriety of life, simplicity of life, to encounter the
other, the spirituality id that of openness to God, relationship back to God
not to be desperate. You realize that you are alone, needy and suffering
looking forward to healing. (1 Kings
17:1-16). The story of Elijah with the poor widow who had to cook the
remaining food and with her son left to die, but God intervenes… (Drought, the
widow), then (Luke 4), the strategic
plan of God. We have God for grace but we have no guarantee, God does his work
in a very interesting way, God lies even to those who are poor, who can’t give
anything, yet they still find something to share like the story of Naaman the
commander. We are called to live a life but with a different form of approach,
a new diverse way, and form.
IDOLATRY
In life, we
have many people who mask themselves leading to a limitation of
self-development. This kind of thinking and living leads to some formed
ideologies and scandals. This read in (Gen
3:5, Exodus 24). We are called
upon to talk responsibility, not being opportunists, for it eliminates
simplicity for leads too much occupation where we struggle with the inner
heart's desires and uncontrolled passions. The idols will always present
themselves but the true image of God can't be eliminated in us, for that is the
reasons for the search of God in our lives. The encounter has to spiritual, for
the gospel is not something there to be read but it's a person who so happens
to be Jesus. The Jesus who calls us to follow Him, daily in the discovery (Psalm 115).
Moses discovers
that the Israelites have made the idol (Exodus
32). Sometimes life comes with its ups and down, about above all we need to
find the joy of listening, create a prayer of intercession among the people,
for God moves, in the tent of meeting with people, united, dynamic living
relationship. The face of God is that which walks, which has to be followed on
the road of life. This is the spiritual tensions that St. Ignatius of Loyola
talks about, spirituality as a path towards God.
(Exodus 3, Gen. 28). The real spiritual
struggle of looking and experiencing this God, A God who can't reveal Himself
amidst the struggles of life. Jacob wants to know His name, but in the
struggles, he gets transformed but He never reveals His name. Sometimes we feel
there is too much light in our lives, his presence looks very far. (Exodus 16:1ff) the people of Israel
have sinned and needs to be forgiven, they are slaves are freed to get their
real identity, the basic needs lack, the temptation of nostalgia, the water,
and bread tested to the extreme. The gift of bread, water the portion of
everyday with its limit of the day, making use of the little we have, to use it
well as a gift, not to collect and accumulate, trusting in the providence of
God and living in His confinement, not to occupy everything, but trusting in
the divine providence.
The word, the
prophetic approach of preaching, because sometimes the idolatry eludes the
presumption, no space for the others (Isaiah
5). Jesus loves the poor when he says blessed are the poor, the benefits of
poverty in man. No fear of loving a poor life, for it is full of sobriety, the
challenge of comparing ourselves with others produces jealousy. (Psalm 39) talks about self-weakness;
how envy enters into our lives. We are called upon to accept our daily limits
in life…The courage to open one's eyes to the breath of God and brotherhood.
The spiritual tension is those moments where God looks upon us as that which we
love the Lord to remove his face from us. The example of Abel. Envy paralyzes
creativity, when you want to compare the self with others, you are as you are. (Psalm 72) a psalm of hope, exultation,
and discovering the breath of God in the other as brothers without which
remains the breath, more breathing.
Knowing the
grace of God is becoming poor to be rich in his poverty (Cf. 2Cor 8:9), although he was in the form of God, he accepted to
die, die on the cross. (Cf. Phil 2:11).
The sensibility of being rich but poor, living God to operate in us, creating a
space in yourself to receive, create something new, the human condition,
dependent on God, nearing things, proximity, without superiority, down to
earth, the relational touch with the Father. Losing yourself to get all…having
contact directly with the life of the other. (Matt 15:21-28, Mk 24:7) The great conviction with Jesus, the woman
transforms Jesus in the way of looking at issues, she insists and turns the
tables around. The truth of things, open hospitality.
Sometimes this
can hit us in matters of inheritance debates in families (Cf. Luke 12:13-20, Luke 16:19-31)
closing the self in self-possession, finding a way of sharing to get fresh air.
The episode of Abraham and the rich man allows us not to wait for the world to
break then help the person near us with our presence, but we need to multiple
this hope even when the hope seems to be elusive.
This will have
to lead us to tenderness, compassion (Cf.
Mk 1:14, 6:21) walking on water, and (Mk
8:27) multiplication of bread. (Mk
13:28, 4:12, 25, 14:27.28). We need to flourish the tenderness, the
sensibility that entails in each one of us, self-disposition of the self, the
problem and difficulty with others, something moving inside me, the intensity
of the relationship. Sometimes he who betrays us is someone near us but eating
today is the tenderness of life and attention in a particular way of living a
relationship.
© Nyamunga J.B’19
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