Prayer Prompt before reading LK 7:31-35 Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray well, 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.
“TO WHAT SHALL I COMPARE THE PEOPLE OF THIS GENERATION? WHAT ARE THEY LIKE?” LK 7:31-35
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 speaks to us in a parable directed to the Jews who have chosen not to commit to Jesus or John the Baptist. These holy men God sent to reveal His salvation to the world. First, John the Baptist, who is a fire and brimstone preacher and gives up all worldly pleasures. The Jews dismiss him as “possessed by a demon”. Then, the “Lamb of God’, Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, God’s only Son, comes to the Jews as one who is compassionate and sits with sinners (tax collectors and prostitutes).
John the Baptist ushers Christ into the world and he represents Wisdom. The highest gift of the Holy Spirit is wisdom and it makes the soul responsive to God and contemplative to divine things. How often are we like the Jews that will not accept Jesus into our hearts. He is ready to be welcomed in each person we meet, in the Eucharist at Mass, at adoration, in prayer, in every Catholic Church, in our suffering and our blessings, He is always there waiting. We either accept Him or reject Him.
May we continually strive to be holy, the purpose for which God made us in His Divine image and likeness before the Fall. May we strive to continually repent, change our life by replacing sin with virtues, and accept Jesus and His grace which is the only way we can accomplish these things. As John the Baptist said, “I must decrease so He can increase”.
Today’s challenge: Peter Kreeft says that the hardest death we fear the most is not physical death but death to our will, to give one’s life up for another. “Be not afraid”, be bold, empty yourself and allow Jesus to fill you up!
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
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