Is God a tyrant, that he punishes people for not adhering to his
invitation at his prepared banquet (Mt 22, 1-14)? Does he violently
cast out those who do not wear the proper clothes? One word answer: Never. It
is a question of carefully listening at depth to what Jesus is telling us: to
discern and decipher his hidden message, to find him from the ‘hiding’ and see
what actually he is revealing.
The "point" in a parable is more importantly applied to each
individual, than mere moral lesson we gather from it. If we fail to understand
this simple truth, it means we are “not clothed in Jesus, in his seamless
garment” – the garment of charity. We ARE clandestine at God’s banquet of love
and mercy. We cannot remain mute before God, when it is a question of justice
and truth. We do not remain silent at the decisive question in life.
God’ initiative never fails, even if things do not go as planned. It is
we who fail God at the "crossroads" where he awaits us (each single
moment of life). A non-location, an emotional place, are the main crossroads
where God and us meet, we encounter. It is open to all. God stops at the
crossroads of our life and loves to stay there placing himself at our mercy.
Difficult human roads under duress meet at the crossroads with diverse directions
that are difficult to take. There, we confront crooked, curved and confused
paths. Yet, we are not lost. We cross God's paths, where he waits at the
crossroads of our lives.
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