Wednesday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time - Luke
9:57-62
In today’s Gospel we see the enthusiastic
response of an individual to Jesus’ preaching. This person was so enraptured by
Jesus that he or she was ready to immediately leave home and family and become
Jesus’ disciple. However, when Jesus tells the person what “following him”
would entail (leaving home and family), the individual responds with many
reasons why it would be impossible for him or her to follow Jesus. The reasons
and responsibilities they had were very real. They had families to support and
other responsibilities to take care of.
Think back: can you remember a time in your life
when you were so “on fire” for Jesus and his message that you were ready to
“give your all” to Jesus? At these times, our desire and plan to “give our all”
to follow Jesus is very real. Then the reality of life intrudes. There is not
enough time and we have too many responsibilities! Guess what happens?
Often it is impossible for us to follow Jesus as
we initially thought we would do. It doesn’t mean that we have changed our
minds and hearts. Perhaps we need to think of it differently. Jesus might be
asking us to follow him by going about our regular daily responsibilities with
greater love and care. Or we may find ourselves ministering to someone who
needs a friend to listen to them. There are many different ways to follow Jesus
and all of them are good! Today how is Jesus calling you?
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