Lord, my arrogance and independence get in the way sometimes.
Please, I beg of you, help me to pray for and embrace the humility that will
open up deeper ways of communicating with you. Let me invite those people into
my life that I might recoil from and let me love and respect them as you do.
Help me to see you in each person I meet.
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| Immaculate Heart of Mary, Pray for us who have recourse to thee! |
Intentions
Today, I pray
for my entire extended family; that those who are seeking the Truth find Him
and that those who are far from Him draw closer.
I also pray,
as usual, for peace on Earth to men of good will.
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Reflection
God is the source of all good and He will reward us for
doing good and being of service to others, but He expects no reward for His
goodness to us. He gives us the heavenly
reward that we earn during our lives here on the earth.
Jesus gives us an example of what He means by
service. He speaks of the poor, the
crippled, the lame, and the blind. (Luke 14:12-14) These are the people that
Jesus sought out during His travels in Galilee and Judea. He constantly sought to be of service to them
and to teach them by His words and His example.
Even when Jesus spent time with leading citizens like the Pharisee on
this occasion, He didn’t go to relax and enjoy Himself, but rather to teach
them that they too should follow His example and find ways to serve others.
And that’s what Jesus is still asking of you and me
today as we listen once again to the story of Jesus’ visit to the home of the
Pharisee. He asks that we look for
people who could use our help. He asks
us to find ways to help them without seeking anything in return. In other words He asks us to follow His
example and to learn from Him. And as
Jesus tells us, the reward for our service will come not from those we serve
and help, but from God who will repay us with that heavenly reward to which all
of us aspire.
Perhaps if we learn to serve others after the example of
Jesus, we will also learn to better understand what Saint Paul means in his
letter to the Romans when he writes of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of
God, and of the inscrutability of His judgments and the unsearchableness of His
ways. (Romans 11:29-36)
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