Breaking the Word

GOSPEL READING: LUKE 10:21-24

God has a plan for everyone and everything in the world. Nothing happens in the world without him knowing it. He has created the world; he has ordered it; and he has a plan for everything and his plans work out. Knowing the will of God and working his will in the world is the greatest goal of life for man.

Jesus came in to the world and discerned the will of God in his forty days of prayer at the beginning of his ministry and he discerned the plan of God for everything. He wanted the will of God to be worked out before his own will and wish. Here in this passage he has realized the will of God and expressed it openly.

தந்தையின் திருவுளத்தை அறிந்து அதை செயல் படுத்துவதுதான் படைப்பின் நோக்கம். உலக நிகழ்வுகளில் இறைவனின் திருவுளத்தை கண்டு அதை செயல்படுத்துவது மனிதனின் தலையான கடமை. இயேசு அதை சிறப்பாக செய்தார். உலக நிகழ்வுகளில் இறைவனின் திருவுளம் கண்டார்.

GOSPEL READING: MATTHEW 8:5-11

Jesus appreciated the good things. Here he appreciated the faith of the man. The man was a roman officer and he was not a Jew. He revealed his faith in accepting Jesus as the Son of God and his own situation as unworthy in front of Jesus. Though he was a man of position in the society yet he is ready to come down. We see a similar situation in the case of the Canaanite woman.

In the case of the Canaanite woman Jesus exclaimed saying ‘Woman your faith is great’. Here he exclaimed saying that he has not found such a faith among the Israelites. Non-Israelites have faith. Their expression faith is greater or better than the expressed faith of the Israelites. Their faith is seen in their realization of their own unworthiness in front of God.

புpறமதத்தினரின் நம்பிக்கை சிறந்ததாகவும் பெரிதாகவும் இயேசுவால் போற்றப்படுகிறது. தன்னிலை மறந்து தான் என்ற நிலைப்பாட்டை விட்டு இறங்கும் போது நம்பிக்கை வெளிப்படுத்தப்படுகிறது.