TRY YOUR BEST

PRAYER PAUSE

Wednesday 31 October 2018, Alphonsus Rodriguez

TRY YOUR BEST

Enter into the stillness of God within.

Reading ”Try your best to enter byythe narrow dor.” (Luke 13:20-30)

Reflection. As Jesus journeyed steadily towards Jerusalem and the contest that awaited him thre, people were beginning to sense that the coming of the kingdom of God was not goig to happen easily.  Jesu reinforces this perception.  Many, he says, presume they can follow their own agenda and that somehow that will fit with God’s plan for his kingdom. Well, it might.  But then, again, it might not!. A person has to strive to test his or her way of life and see if it really does accord with the coming of the kingdom.  If it doesn’t, we are not going anywhere.  So, as Jesus draws closer t Jeusalem his message is: Do not presume. Test your way of proceding and see if it is aligned with the Spirit of God.

Prayer. Lord, help us to be sensitive to our own way of life and give us the courage to change where change is needed. Amen.