Today's 1st reading reminds me of the game I used to play
with my sons when they were still young. During weekends when I'm at home with
them we play a lot of games together. Since they are boys and have been
watching a lot of those Power Rangers and Ninja Turtles stuff, one of the games
was to pretend that we were in a battle field just like those super heroes they
see on TV and a monster was going to attack us. I would tell them to come close
to me and embrace each other tightly and huddle as close as possible so that we
can envelop ourselves into a ball while a shield forms around us to protect us.
I would assure them that we are safe once we're inside the shield and used to
imagine it just like what the Lord is telling us today as an encircling wall of
fire that nothing or no one can go past it to harm us. Amen. Hallelujah!
Zechariah 2:5-9. 14-15a
...But I will be for her an encircling wall of fire, says
the LORD, and I will be the glory in her midst.” 14 Sing and rejoice, O
daughter Zion !
See, I am coming to dwell among you, says the LORD. 15 Many nations shall join
themselves to the LORD on that day, and they shall be his people, and he will
dwell among you, and you shall know that the LORD of hosts has sent me to
you.
We can always take courage in the fact that we have a Loving
Father who is like a Good Shepherd. He will surely lead us to the right path. There
are significant events in our life that we can associate with certain major
decisions we made and can never forget. In everything let us always lift it to
God in prayer. The place where we are
right now is exactly where God wants us to be. If God brings us here then He
will bring us through it. God knows exactly and with perfection what is being
allowed to happen to us in our life at this precise moment. God's purpose for
us is simply perfect. He wants to show us things that only we can understand by
living what we are living and by being in the place where we are now. That's
God, He passes us through a lot of things for us to see His glory. It is a
consolation to know that we can always count on God’s loving care and
protection just as stated in today’s psalm reading. It can really make our
hearts swell with joy and pride knowing that the Lord guards us as a shepherd
guards his flock. Amen. Hallelujah!
P S A L MJeremiah 31:10, 11-12abcd, 13
R: The Lord will guard us, as a shepherd guards his flock.
10 Hear the word of the LORD, O nations, proclaim it on distant isles, and say: He who scattered
Let us not take for granted the things that Jesus is
communicating with us everyday of our lives. What He wants for us is to gain
knowledge on matters that we do not know and enrich what we already know.
Nothing in what Jesus is telling us is difficult to understand nor will He
purposely confuse or lead us astray. All of these we can surely have access if
we will just pay attention to Him as what today's gospel is telling us. Have
you ever experienced in your life when you hesitate to ask and just prefer to
keep silent about something that you don't really know about? Sometimes we
don't fully understand why things happen the way they do but we can be assured
that in spite of our limitations and inadequacies we have a God who oversees
everything. As the song goes," He who began a good work will be faithful
to complete it in you." All we have to do is always pay attention to what
God is telling us to do and obey. Paying attention at all times is a very good
advice that anybody can benefit from especially if the person whom we are
talking to has a lot of good things to say that we can learn from. In today's
gospel, Jesus said to his disciples to pay attention and we all know that no
one else can be more worthy of our attention than Jesus. I've had several
mishaps in my lifetime because I wasn't paying much attention and realized that
we would surely all be better off in our life if we will always give our full
attention to Jesus. Amen. Hallelujah!
Luke 9:43b-45 43
While they were all amazed at his every deed, he said to his
disciples, 44 “Pay attention to what I am telling you. The Son of Man is to be
handed over to men.” 45 But they did not understand this saying; its meaning was
hidden from them so that they should not understand it, and they were afraid to
ask him about this saying.
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