THE WORD BECAME FLESH

Tuesday of 30^th week in ordinary time, 2021

Rom 8:18-25

Ps 126

Luke 13: 18-21

The kingdom of God

Both parables in today’s gospel reading suggest that something small can produce effects greatly beyond what one might expect. 

A mustard seed gives rise to a tree which provides shelter for the birds of the air. A small piece of yeast transforms flower into enough bread to feed a large number of people. The seed is hidden in the ground and the yeast is hidden in the flour, and yet the impact of both is visible in what finally emerges. Jesus is saying that the kingdom of God is like this. We are being reminded that the kingdom of God often comes to earth through gestures and actions that seem very insignificant and that are often invisible to most people.

 Jesus had just healed a woman in the synagogue who had been bent over for eighteen years. The action of Jesus directly touched only one woman in some Galilean village. Yet, what Jesus did have an impact on many more and we who read Luke’s gospel today continued to be touched by this event. God continues to speak to us and to touch our lives through it. We can never underestimate the ways that God can work through the smallest of our loving initiatives towards others. We sow a seed of love, justice or truth, and it becomes more than we could ever have imaged. We implant some leaven of goodness into a situation that seems unpromising and more lives are touched than we could possibly have foreseen. The Lord needs us to do the little we can, and sometimes a little is all we can do, for various reasons. Yet, the Lord can work through that little of ours in ways that will very often leave us surprised and humbled.

Let us pray: Lord Jesus, fill me with your Holy Spirit and transform me into the Christ-like holiness you desire. Amen

+Remain blessed