We Belong to Christ and Christ Belongs to God!

 

22nd Week Thursday in Ordinary Time

Year One

Col 1:9-14

Meditation

For this reason, since the day we heard it, we have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 so that you may lead lives worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, as you bear fruit in every good work and as you grow in the knowledge of God. May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, while joyfully  giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light.

We do pray as individuals, but the prayer as a community is also important. Individuals make the community; if the community of believers are good, there will be love, care and joy. God loves his faithful, and he wants them to be worthy of him. God is holy, and humans are weak and sinful. Humans will lack something to be perfect in everything. God is inviting them to be worthy of him and make an effort to be pleasing to God and bear fruit in all that they do. God has given humans knowledge, will and insight to know what is good and bad. Humans should make use of their knowledge and live wisely according the wish and will of God. To those who live worthy of God will inherit the kingdom of God.

Do we make an effort to live as worthy sons and daughters of God?

Year Two

1 Cor 3:18-23

We Belong to Christ and Christ Belongs to God!

The wise and the powerful want to have a say in everything and control everyone but in the sight of God, one has to be humble and even be a fool. The way of the world is not pleasing to God. The wisdom of the world does not work for the Kingdom's values. One may belong to Apollos or Cephas, to death or life, to the present or the future, we all belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

In the case of Mother Teresa of Kolkata, there was a call to work for the needy in the slums of Kolkata. She dared to leave behind all her security to work in the slums of Kolkata. She had faced many challenges, but her prayer life and the grace of God led her through the ups and downs of her mission for the poor. She witnessed Christ in India for charity in action as the love of God.

What are the securities that we have built for ourselves?

Lk 5:1-11

 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, “Put out into the deep water and let down your nets for a catch.”  Simon answered, “Master, we have worked all night long but have caught nothing. Yet if you say so, I will let down the nets.” When they had done this, they caught so many fish that their nets were beginning to burst. (Lk 5:4-6)

“Let down your nets into the deep water,” this is the invitation of Jesus to all of us today. As we won’t get a good catch of fish in the shallow water but in deep water, we have to enter into the deep water of life and the spirit of God, for a better experience of God.  It is an invitation for us to look into our inner life, deep down into our heart, into our inner core of life, where we find and meet God. Let us not be satisfied with a minimum of outward life but with fullness of life in Jesus. As Peter listened to the words of Jesus and witnessed the great catch of fish, we need to listen to the words of Jesus and obey them in order to have a deeper experience of God.

Are we ready to obey the voice of Jesus to let down our nets into the deep?

Fr Putti Anthaiah Sdb

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