Open To Change

The Good News is only good to us if we are open to change. In today’s Gospel, Jesus calls us to Repent, and believe in the gospel (Mark 1:15). To repent is to have a change of mind and to believe is to accept trustfully the message of Jesus. Neither is easy, because, quite frankly, the Good News tests us. We need to convert because the Good News contains something hidden - God’s Kingdom - present wherever God’s will is being done. Openness to change aligns us with the Kingdom. What Jesus is calling us to is simultaneously comforting and discomforting: comforting inasmuch as we are in alignment with the destiny God has called us to; discomforting inasmuch as we have to change in order to enter into it. To enter the Kingdom we must do so on God’s terms, not ours.

Lord, help us accept trustfully your Good News!

David J. Conrad