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Theo Tigno•
9/26/2011 3:51 pm
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Tuesday, September 27th 2011 |
Luke 9: 51-56
When the days for Jesus to be taken up were fulfilled, he resolutely determined to journey to Jerusalem, and he sent messengers ahead of him. On the way they entered a Samaritan village to prepare for his reception there, but they would not welcome him because the destination of his journey was Jerusalem. When the disciples James and John saw this they asked, "Lord, do you want us to call down fire from heaven to consume them?" Jesus turned and rebuked them, and they journeyed to another village.
Dawg's Thought:
Today's prayer intention - for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
If God was the God that was in my imagination most of the time, I would never encounter traffic, gas prices would have remained under $1, and I work would be fun a litany of fun projects that energized my brain.
Praise God that He is not the God of my imagination.
The problem often times comes when I continue to lament on why the Lord didn't "call down fire from heaven to consume them." If there is any point in which I place my own suffering on myself, it is normally when I don't want to let things go. Everyday there are great examples ...
... and in every example, there is God's providence. It makes me wonder: if this is the case, is God's providence in what is presently before us or is it in what we desire and the pursuit of that desire? We hear so many great stories of people who spend their lives sacrificing in order to obtain a great success story ... and earthly success story. In what may appear to be a lack of providence, is God scripting a "heavenly" success story?
We love hearing stories of the person who lived in their car and one day achieved success. Those moments of pain and sacrifice a path were all a part of the glory of the achievement.
Praise God, then, for His providence. May we cooperate with it daily so that we may be a "saintly" success story. Take care and God Bless.
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