Prayer Prompt before reading LK 7:31-35: 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.
“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. The last prophet and the Christ, the Son of the living God are the men God sent to reveal and die for the salvation of the world.
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). He heals on the Sabbath, casts out demons, and raises people from the dead.
John the Baptist ushers Christ into the world and 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 or we don’t slow down to sit in silence and become aware of God’s presence all around us and in 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. Repent, change your life, and accept Jesus. 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, be a saint today! (Am I in the state of grace? Did I pray intentionally today? Am I doing my daily tasks?)-Fr. Mike Schmitz
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
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