Isaiah 49:8-15 / John 5:17-30
With technology moving so fast, our mobile gadgets and devices could be rather aged even though it may be hardly a year since we started using them.
Furthermore, with the renewal of another two-year contract we get the new and latest models, it would not be surprising that we have a couple of mobile phones in our drawers or at some corner of the cupboard.
There might be times when they come in handy as spare phones, but by and large they are already "retired"; which is another way of saying that they are not that important and of not much use.
And what is no more important and of no use is simple left abandoned and forgotten.
In the 1st reading, we heard that it was Zion who was saying: The Lord has abandoned me, the Lord has forgotten me.
Zion was making such statements because the people of God felt that God has deserted them and let their enemies overrun them and conquer them.
But the Lord retorted by asking does a woman forget her baby at the breast, or fail to cherish the son of her womb? Even if these forget, the Lord will not forget!
Actually, very often it is the other way round - we are the ones who forget about the Lord and abandoned His precepts altogether.
Yes, we sinned against the Lord, and as we know by now the wages of sin is death. When we sin we die a slow spiritual death.
Yet, even as we are dying a slow spiritual death, the Lord calls us to Him with His love and forgiveness so that in hearing the voice of our Saviour, we will hear it and live again.
Yes, the Lord will not forget us; may we not forget about Him. And may we not say that the Lord has abandoned us and forgotten about us.