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Theo Tigno•
3/15/2011 4:59 pm
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Wednesday in the First Week of Lent |
Luke 11: 29-32
While still more people gathered in the crowd, Jesus said to them, "This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah. Just as Jonah became a sign to the Ninevites, so will the Son of Man be to this generation. At the judgment the queen of the south will rise with the men of this generation and she will condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and there is something greater than Solomon here. At the judgment the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because at the preaching of Jonah they repented, and there is something greater than Jonah here."
Dawg's Thought:
Today's prayer intention - for the nuclear situation in Japan.
"Forty days more and Nineveh shall be destroyed ... "
In the account in Jonah, he simply spoke these words and they repented; they "turned away from their evil ways." In seeing this, God relented from destroying Ninevah.
We have so much more than the very few words of Jonah. We have Jesus Christ, Who offers Himself to us as a complete and total Gift. We have the scriptures. We have the Church. We have the witness of the Martyrs, the wisdom of the Doctors, and the examples of a great litany of Saints. We have a tremendous amount of prayers, spiritual writings, and accounts of men and women who desired to "turn from their evil ways" because there was Someone greater than Solomon or Jonah.
We are extremely blessed. I did a little research on the "Queen of the South". She gave Solomon four and a half tons of gold, and how humbling it is to know that we are more blessed than her (although I wouldn't mind having a quarter ton on the side ... ) How humbling is it to know that "there is something greater than Solomon here."
With these riches, isn't it a shame that more people in this world aren't moved to repentance? Isn't it a tragedy that in our world today, the stockpile of riches we can freely draw from collects dust? Woe to us who point to the great treasure we have but do not use it to feed us ... clothes us ... shelter us! Woe to us who are more fearful of being judged by men that we keep God's great treasure stowed away in our "wallets" of pride! Woe to us if we are too prideful and refuse God's merciful, mighty hand!
"When God saw by their actions how they turned from their evil way, he repented of the evil that he had threatened to do to them; he did not carry it out." - Jonah 3:10
Brothers and sisters, there is something greater than Jonah here. Take care and God Bless.
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