Prayer Prompt before reading LK 9:51-62: 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 is and God the Son so that I may know who I am.
“LET THE DEAD BURY THEIR DEAD. BUT YOU, GO AND PROCLAIM THE KINGDOM OF GOD.” LK 9:51-62
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Today, Jesus teaches us an important lesson about the radically high importance of the Kingdom of God that we are called to strive for with His grace. Jesus speaks words that make a common person like me wonder if He is crazy. What I have experienced is Jesus is crazy, crazy in love with each and every one of us.
Today, Jesus is resolute on going to Jerusalem where His Passion, Death, Resurrection and Ascension, His final destination on earth, His mission and purpose, will culminate. His message is simple but not easy to follow. The Kingdom of God is more important than saying good bye or even burying those who are closest to you, your family.
The point, to be holy, God must be the center of our lives because God in us makes us holy not anything we do. This is why God became Man and dwelt among us. Jesus married the human and divine so that we could put God in us who is holy.
With God’s grace, God’s life in us, we are holy. In prayer, reading God’s Word, Works of Mercy, and the sacraments, especially the Eucharist. Once we have accepted God as the center of our lives, He will rightly order our lives and this leads to holiness or happiness more specifically what we are all searching for peace among the worries and anxieties of life. The Kingdom of God is not some far away destination, it lies in our hearts.
Today’s challenge: Take some time daily to sit in silence and listen to Jesus teach you about the Kingdom of God in your life. Then, go forth and tell the whole world (for most of us our families, people in our parishes, those we work with, or in our community) this great news!
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
212-Boiling Point-Christ is all in for us, our response-all in for Christ. There is no fence to straddle in a relationship with God.
In the gospel Jesus says “unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the Kingdom of heaven unless you turn and become like children, you will not enter the Kingdom of heaven” I find it interesting that Jesus calls a child and not name one of the great prophet or answer that his is the greatest but that whom ever becomes like a child will be the greatest in heaven.