Monday of 8th Week in Ordinary Time Yr. II: reflection

Theme: With God’s grace, nothing is impossible

1Pet 1:3–9; Mk 10:17–27

In today’s gospel reading, our Lord Jesus assured his disciples that what is impossible for humans is never impossible for God; with God, all things are possible. This assurance came because of his disciples’ bewilderment at his teaching on how difficult it is for the rich toinherit the kingdom of God.

Indeed, the resurrection of Jesus Christ has given us a solid assurance that nothing is impossible for us if the hand/grace of God is upon us. This was revealed to us in today’s first reading by St. Peter, who declared that Christ’s resurrection had given us a new birth and made us eligible for an inheritance that is impervious to all circumstances, imperishable, undefiled, unfading, and safely kept for us.

In today’s gospel, the young man who approached Jesus thought about the great task that faith required of him, but all he saw was impossibility, and he was forced to give up because he did not have faith in God’s grace.

Dear friends in Christ, the situation of our world may challenge our goals, projects, resolutions and faith requirements with many obstacles and trials, but St Peter assures us today that these trials, which are unavoidable, are only a test of our solidness in God. Whoever wraps himself with God’s grace and stands tall in moments of trials will discover that with God, all impossibilities are made possible, and all battles are won. With God, all mountains of problems will be moved, all hurdles of trials will be jumped, and all clouds of difficulties will be cleared.

Never give up, for God’s grace will make the impossibilities you see today possible. Amen.

Fr Isaac C. Chima