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Theo Tigno•
11/30/2010 6:00 pm
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Tuesday in the First Week of Advent |
Matthew 4: 18-22
As Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and his brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea; they were fishermen. He said to them, "Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men." At once they left their nets and followed him. He walked along from there and saw two other brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John. They were in a boat, with their father Zebedee, mending their nets. He called them, and immediately they left their boat and their father and followed him.
Dawg's Thought:
Today's prayer intention - for the healing and recovery of Edward Baston.
Today is the Feast of St. Andrew the Apostle.
Jesus called a fisherman. Not a politician nor a scholar, but a fisherman.
A few years ago, I heard a homily from Fr. Ifunanya at a local parish. After hearing the homily, I asked if I could photocopy it. Unfortunately, it was in a folder I ended up leaving on the plane.
Fortunately, I used part of his homily in a reflection that I led recently. Please forgive me if I have used this before.
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For those of you whom the Lord has been calling for discipleship and ministry, how have you been approaching this voice of the Lord calling? Have you been responding effectively? If not, has your sense of inadequacy been inhibiting you? Can you see that your inadequacy is really one of the conditions for qualification? Who has ever been adequate or who has ever felt unworthy of the call of the Lord?
Perhaps you need to hear that when the Lord demands that you leave everything to follow Him, He is actually telling you that the one qualification needed to qualify for the job of answering His call is your vulnerability. Come with your unworthiness! Come with your unclean lips!
Why is our vulnerability the one condition to qualify for responding to the call? It is because the work is the Lord's. Whatever He would ask you to do, He Himself has been there at work before your arrival. It is important that you travel vulnerable so that you would be emptied enough to discover what the Lord has been doing there. Only then would you be able to see the specific contribution He has equipped you to make. And because we rely on our vulnerability, we rely on the Lord more completely.
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Take care and God Bless.
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