DISCERNMENT: God’s
messages, as in today’s Scripture readings, Jer 26: 1-9 and Mt. 13: 54-58, many
times ring in our ears as: “Who are you to bring me that message, to say such a
thing, to question me?” Rather than
hearing what God is trying to tell me, many times I attack the messenger. I do
not want my life disturbed. I am comfortable, going about my business, doing
what I want to do. Is it
possible, though, that God is calling me to a deeper commitment, to a ministry/career change I have been
avoiding, to a relationship I have been less than willing to reconcile, to pursuing
a relationship that would be mutually rewarding, to a vocation I have been resisting? When Jesus enters our lives through a
messenger, wanting to bring us Good News, and we react with “who does he/she
thinks she/he is; I’m not called to that? I’m not going to consider
such-and-such; or leave me alone, I have my mind made up” it is
not Jesus who is hindered in His work in our lives. By our reaction and
unwillingness to listen, we render ourselves unreceptive.
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