WEDNESDAY, TWENTY FIFTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME
Prv 30:5-9 Ps 119:29,72,89,101,104,163 Lk 9:1-6
THE CONFIDENCE IN GOD’S LOVE
“Tell me what your priorities in everyday life are, and I will tell you the status of your life.” We humans live by priorities, and our priorities are those which we think to be the most important for our everyday success story. And based on these priorities we make the choices of things in life. However, for us Christians, the priorities of life are supposed to be totally different. Since God alone is the surety of our life, we are to be preoccupied in His mission alone. Jesus himself had promised that every labourer deserves his wages and God will give them their daily bread. That is the reason, Jesus tells his disciples, “Take nothing for your journey; neither staff, nor scrip, nor bread nor money” All will be provided when needed by their providential God.
When a disciple of Jesus begins to live a life based on the providence of God one more great miracle begins to happen in their life. He/she begins to live a life of total integrity and authenticity, with no vanity and falsehood. Hence the first reading tells us that a true believer in the Lord knows the power of God and the worth of living in His abundance of blessings. What makes us to be so confident in God that He will provide us with whatever we need? It is our utter trust in His love that comes from our intimacy with Him in prayer. Therefore, all the mystics of the Catholic Church especially Saints John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila propose detachment as a primary requirement in our spiritual pursuit. It is our total distaste for earthly things and our complete belonging to God, that can make us to come to the experience of this confidence.
Saint Therese, would put it more succinctly when she says, “for it is the confidence, and nothing but confidence, which will open the arms of Jesus to you so that He will bear you up. Confidence will be for you the golden key to His Heart.” Can we vouch for God to live a life with total confidence in Him alone?
Response: You word is lamp for my feet, Lord.
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