WHO SHOULD SUIT WHO?

Friday in the 2nd Week of Advent
Mt 11:16-19

Advent is a season of waiting. It is a period of expectation. The excitement that goes with our waiting and expectation becomes more and more intense as Christmas day approaches. But what are we really expecting? What are we really waiting for?

We are not waiting for Jesus to be born. He was already born, more than two thousand years ago. We rather commemorate His birth.

What we are expecting is the second coming of Jesus. We wait for Him to come again, not as a feeble, tiny, helpless baby, but as a just and merciful judge. How, when, and where it will actually happen, we do not know. But we are certain it will! The most important thing we must do, therefore, is be prepared for it. The Advent Season, particularly its first part (the first week of the season through December 16) underscores this by calling us all to conversion from sin and focusing our consideration on the “last things”.

Advent is a time of waiting, expecting and preparing. We are not passive as we wait and expect. We prepare our selves for the coming of Him whom we wait for and the occurrence of that which we expect to happen.

How are we preparing so far? Do we heed the call to repentance and conversion of life? Or are we indifferent because the call is sounded to us by someone who does not suit our taste? Are we like the Jews in the Gospel today, who turned a deaf ear to the voice of John the Baptist and played blind to the witness of Jesus because both John and Jesus did not suit their expectations?

Come to think of it: should Jesus suit our expectations or should we instead be the ones to strive fulfilling what Jesus expects of us?