Vocational Choice: “…[N]o
one [in any walk of life],” Jesus says, “who has given up house or brothers or
sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake
of the Gospel ….will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age:
houses and brothers and sisters and brothers and children and lands, with
persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come.”
The pain involved in leaving that which is dear to us or
which is difficult to set aside as we follow the Spirit’s lead or when we
choose the vocation in life to which God is inviting us—marriage, religious
life, priesthood, the single lifestyle—is richly compensated for by our loving
God. Jesus says that we will receive “hundred
times more now in this present age…and eternal life in the age to come.” There is never a time when we sacrifice for God
in choosing that vocation to which we feel called or when we sacrifice for
another in living life fully according to the Gospel and what Christian charity
requires of us that the “pay” is not “a hundred times more” than we ever
imagined.
What, today, am I willing to do to follow the Spirit’s lead be that in choosing a vocation in life or in making less weighty decisions to live life fully?
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