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.
“NO ONE WHO SETS A HAND TO THE PLOW AND LOOKS TO WHAT WAS LEFT BEHIND IS FIT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD.” LK 9:57-62
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Jesus teaches us today that proclaiming the Kingdom of God is more important than family and work duties. God must come first. We would have neither family or work without God giving us life and sustaining us. Jesus teaches the “severity and unconditional nature of being a Christian disciple” (NAB Bible). I try to change and grow in holiness in fits and starts, but real change has been difficult and taken great perseverance in my life.
Only God’s grace can help us to severely and unconditionally make God first in our lives and create real change. Today, Jesus is calling us to be open to those graces He wants to give us daily so our hearts will truly be set on our heavenly home. As Christians it is important to live with the end in mind and have a sense of urgency about our purpose and our goal of reaching heaven. It doesn’t just happen because we wish it to. If you don’t know where to start, I always find out the most when I am on my knees praying in front of the crucifix in silence.
“God knows you better than you know yourself. God loves you more than you love yourself. God wants you to know His will.” -Fr. Mike Schmitz
How to know God’s Will for you? Daily Examen: 1. Am I in the state of grace? 2. Did I pray today? 3. Am I doing my daily tasks?
God will make you happiest and most joyful. It requires great sacrifice and suffering because the paradox of the Gospel is “it is in giving that we receive” and “we gain life by losing it” and “a seed of grain must die in order to live”. It’s time to take Him serious and put Him first.
Today’s challenge: Open yourself up to God’s grace and love and try to make real change in your life overcoming the one sin that is taking you furthest away from Christ. You may need to fast from an electronic device or forgive someone.
“I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.”-St. Therese of Lisieux
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
212-Boiling Point-God, our Father, is all in for us, a radical love that was proven to us by giving us His only Son to Die on a cross-our response-a radical love that puts others before self
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