Great Sign

Many religious magazine’s and channels introduce to us very beautiful and wonderful image about God, but most of them are fruitless. Those gods produce great signs from heaven and earth, but can not make us fruitful in acting with the values of the kingdom of God. Sometime these wonderful gods despise the values of the kingdom. Those gods who promise prosperity and well being cannot offer anything for the poor, they cannot encourage acts of justice, they cannot enliven grace for being sincere and stand for peace processes.

Often, we expect great signs. Why? We doubt about the presence of God, or not sure whether God is happy with us, or suspect evil everywhere and don’t know which way to go. One who wavers cannot expect that the Lord will give him anything. It is because we do not know God we have doubts. God cannot go away from us, God cannot be angry with us, in God we have the sure way. Though we say that we must give first place for God, even our preachings suggest that we place ourselves, our sins, and our fears in the first place. We are frightened, broken, sinful, yet God gives life to us. By a forceful intellectual labour we cannot bring God in the first place. First thing to understand is that the super wonderful God is not a God at all. The true and living God stays within our emptiness and pain. God is there in our struggles and temptations. Secondly, God has given us the grace in us to comfort strengthen and raise up one another. So the sign to be seen is from the signs of grace within us. The surety that we find in God is the living faith that is fruitful. Rather than looking for definitions and explanations of God, or utility in believing in God, can we grow in the sense of belonging to him? Can we make all sincere effort to place our trust in Him? That trust will make in us a new creation, open the channels of grace in us that will reflect in our day-to-day activities and attitudes. That is the sign from God.

James 1:1-11 Mark 8:11-13