Trusting Jesus

In today’s Gospel,  Mark 1: 299-39, Jesus heals Peter’s mother-in-law. As soon as Jesus entered Peter’s house, the disciples (Peter and his brother Andrew and James and John) told him that Peter’s mother-in-law was sick. Jesus immediately approached her, “grasped her hand, and helped her up. Then the fever left her and she waited on them….In the evening, after sunset,….  the whole town was gathered at the door.”  Jesus “cured many who were sick with various diseases, and he drove out many demons, not permitting them to speak because they knew him.”

Let us, as the responsorial psalm, Psalm 105, invites us to do: “Give thanks to the Lord, invoke his name; make known among the nations his deeds",  as He is as active today, as in Peter's time. ” Let us “glory in his holy name; rejoice” and “look to the Lord in his strength; seek to serve him constantly” because “in the evening, after sunset,” that is, in the darkness of our current events and world, God is at work. The demons will be driven out of those possessed by hatred and bigotry and by misogynistic, narcissistic and prejudicial attitudes that will bring harm to the poor and to this country and the entire world.   

      

To what extent do you and I share our concerns with God, knowing that God will  heed our requests that sicknesses be healed, “demons” cast out, injustices squelched, sinful behaviors challenged, and wrongs made right.  Just as Jesus, as Mark tells us, “went into their synagogues, preaching and driving out demons throughout the whole of Galilee, so, too, today,  does He do so throughout the entire world. Evil shall not prevail!  

Jesus, I trust in you.