Jonah, 3, 1-10;
Sal 50;
Lc. 11, 29-32
sounds again our Lenten journey the word conversion. The prophet is sent to Nineveh, although it cost him accept this mission that wanted to flee initially embarking on the road opposite. But God had entrusted a mission that had to meet and even tortuous roads were eventually ended by accepting and fulfilling that mission. I know from other times of the storm at sea, the whale that swallowed him and stuff.
'came back the word of God to Jonah, "Arise and go to Nineveh, that great capital where the cry and cry you say' . Jonah did as he had said the Lord. 'Jonah began to enter into the city and walked for a day proclaiming what the Lord said: In forty days Nineveh will be destroyed. "
is amazing how quickly the entire city welcomed the call of the prophet. All penitential dress became the Lord of his evil ways and evil doing. And the Lord saw the repentance of the people and for them there was forgiveness.
We also hear that invitation to repentance and conversion that the Lord is doing in the word that the Church proclaims to us every day. Concretely we will hear every day what the Word he points us of things we have to go changing, changing in our life.
Lent will be the time for reflection, examination, looking at us life, but look at the great goodness of the Lord who accompanies us with his grace. In response we are now we have to go in that purification giving ourselves in the renewal of life, in that sincere conversion to God.
Jesus complains today in the gospel we have heard, of that generation again and again because demand signs and signals, but their eyes are blinded and do not stop to discover all that is offering. 'As Jonah was a sign to the people of Nineveh, as the Son of Man be to this generation' . When the trial be adjourned Queen of the South who came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, the people of Nineveh will arise who heard the words of the prophet and become charged. Here is who is more than Solomon in all his wisdom, because there is the living Word of God there is someone who is more than Jonah was a prophet only because he is the Son of God and his salvation.
What will the Lord of the answer now we give? Are we also blind or plumb in our routine of always thinking they are good and that's all we have to convert? Many times we are blinded. I have no sin, we say so many times. We still have concerns in our hearts to grow each day as people and as Christians. We need to go purifying spiritual refinement more and more of those things that may seem small and insignificant but can be as much hindrance in our spiritual life to that growth.
you know that the hulls of ships must be maintained continuously making them not only to prevent corrosion by painting in continuous contact with water, but also for cleaning many things, some may seem small, hindrances to be adhering to its surface and impede them to slide smoothly in the midst of the waters.
So in our lives. We need to get those little things which also prevent us from realizing expeditiously and fluency in the spiritual race of our lives. That will make us grow spiritually cleansing, this purification will lead to the holy life we \u200b\u200bare called snatching of these imperfections in our actions, our attitudes, the things we do, say or think, that both limit us.
listen without fear that invitation to conversion, purification, spiritual growth, in a word, holiness.
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