"God Must Be ........." – Our Expectation on God
Introduction
- Our reality is shaped by our expectations. We have expectations about all most everything. For example we have expectation about our president, our parents, our brothers and sisters……
- Once in the pre marriage course the animator told the participants to write down their expectation about their partners. Each one took time and wrote their expectation about their future partner. After the reading each one’s expectations the animator told sarcastically, “I think no one in this group will get married, because they will never find a person of their expectation”.
- Today Jesus invites us to think of our expectations about “God”.
Content
- Different expectations about God
o The workers expected from their master a person who is ‘just’ – God who is just, paying each one according to his merit. Therefore, if I have done more I should receive more in comparison with others
o Some may expect God to be ‘destroyer’, as one man prayer – God destroy all my enemies and safeguard me always.
o Some may expect God to be an intermediate. (Lk 12: 13) – “Tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me”.
o Some may expect God to a miracle worker or healer as the king Herod (Lk 23:5-12). Also in the temptation of Jesus.
o What is our expectation on God? It is personal to each one of us.
- But God reminds in the first reading (Isaiah 55:6-9) – ‘for my thoughts are not your thoughts, not are your ways my ways’.
- We are incapable of comprehending God since we are earthlings (belong to earth), timelings (belong to time) and spacelings (belong to space).
Conclusion
- Correct our expectation of God who is beyond all our expectations, who is beyond time, space and earth.
- It calls us to experience God more than defining God. Experience him like the air, like breeze, and like the day light.
- This experience would lead us to a complete surrender like Mary – to say “let thy will be done unto me”, because He arranges everything for our good.
- Also let us not forget our duty to be faithful to God in our lives.
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