“HAS NONE BUT THIS FOREIGNER RETURNED TO GIVE THANKS TO GOD?” THEN HE SAID TO HIM, “STAND UP AND GO; YOUR FAITH HAS SAVED YOU.” LK 17:11-19
Humbly submit your will to God (thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Prayer Prompt before reading LK 17:11-19: Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father and God the Son are so that I may know who I am.
Today, Jesus shows us again the relationship between faith and salvation, gratitude, and what can happen when we fall to the feet of Jesus and ask for His mercy. We are all lepers symbolically with sin. We have inherited a mangled and disfigured nature. We need God’s mercy. All of us are sinners who need a Savior!
The sad thing is we treat others differently because they look different on the outside or they are mentally or physically disabled. There is no normal, every life is a gift, and nobody is better than anybody else in the eyes of God. He sees each of us as His masterpiece. (Watch the movies “Wonder” or “Radio”)
Every one of us is created out of God’s love and has dignity. Every one of us is God’s handiwork and His masterpiece. We matter and have value. No matter how many times we sin, how much we suffer, or how much we are ridiculed we never lose our value because we are made in the image and likeness of God. Be thankful for who you are and what God has blessed you with. Love yourself because you are made in God’s image and likeness.
Be the first to sit with a “foreigner” at lunch and befriend a person with a disability. This is who Jesus would be hanging out with. Today, fall to the feet of Jesus, ask for His mercy, come back to Him and thank Him for His forgiveness and cleansing you. Then, live in the joy of salvation now and in heaven.
Today’s challenge: Sit with someone that is not in your friendship group at lunch today. Fall at the feet of Jesus at the crucifix in your room at home and ask God for mercy and thank Him for the opportunity. Conquer sin with God’s grace, mercy, hope, love and friendship.
Be a servant, be a saint today!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; We will live again!)
Today Jesus is saying that the kingdom of God is among all of us. He says that you cannot see it and nobody will say “look here it is!” He says if someone does say “look here it is!” you should not pursue what he is pointing at.