Thursday of week 1 in Ordinary Time
Gospel – Mark 1:40-45
“Even so, people from all around would come to him”. This is because He is Jesus, the second person of Trinity. This is because He is God incarnated. God who touches our infirmities. Because this verse, there is this episode of a leper who kneeled before Jesus and pleaded. He knelt and confessed his faith in Jesus. ‘If you want to you can cure me.’ The leper has full faith in the power of Jesus to cure him. This is his faith. His faith has another character which is very important. He is ready to admit the plan of God for him. He is not doing an act of faith obliging God to do a miracle. He is ready to accept the plan of God which may be not to heal him too. This character of his faith is very important. While imploring for his important intention, he is leaving space for a better plan of God for him. Let’s reflect: God can have better plans for us than what we have for ourselves and acknowledging that is the real faith.
Thursday 11 January
