He sends rain on the just and the unjust

After exactly two weeks in the Philippines and experiencing two typhoons that passed by, I watched for days the torrents of rain that no European can ever experience. The river passing by our house is increasing daily and it’s worrying the people that live on the banks. The words of Jesus kept coming in my mind all day today: For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. (Mt 5.45). Have we ever tried to understand what was Jesus trying to say exactly in this sentence?

The Asian mind probably deals with these grey areas easier than us Westerns. We try to prove who’s right and who’s wrong. And so this passage confuses us as we can’t deal with the fact that Jesus is considering what we call bad and good as if they are both children of God without distinction.

Hence Jesus invites us to accept rather than to judge. This distinction of good and bad is the work of our ego that searches for personal gratification in the wrong of others. But God looks at all of us and sees just children and He loves us all and sends this rain on those we call bad and good.

And it is still raining out here... each drop calls me to see what I never saw before.