WINNERS

Wednesday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time

Lk 21:12-19

Jesus will never win a presidential election. He paints a rather blight, not bright, future: “Men will seize you and persecute you; they will hand you over to the synagogues and to imprisonment and bring you before kings and governors because of my name. You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, relations and friends, and some of you will be put to death. You will be hated by all men on account of my name.” Who will vote for such a candidate?

But Jesus is not running for any elected position. He is not a contender for any temporal power neither is He a mere nuisance candidate. He is already a winner. Rallying behind Him, we do not increase His supremacy. Running away from Him, we do not decrease His power. But choosing Him makes us winners, too, while abandoning Him makes us losers.

Jesus is not one of the choices for us. He is our one and only choice. When He became human like us in all things but sin, it was Jesus who already voted for us. And we all became winners, don’t you think so?