Mt 24:37-44
‘Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.’ strikes me out of the gospel reading. God is reminding me everything is unpredictable for I will never know what or who will be ‘taken’ at anytime. This sets me thinking what I have been doing with my time. Do I spend time with God or do I pursue things and pleasure for myself at the expense of everything else, even God? ‘Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.’ wakes me up from my sleep of being busy from all the activities around me and get myself prepared for I will never know how the Lord is coming to me, maybe, he is among the people around me, maybe, he is calling me home soon, etc. I will never know how I will be meeting him. No matter what, as long as I spend time with him and love others with Love out of Love according to God’s will, I should not have any regrets. I must make conscious efforts to spend more time with him so that I can keep on going back to him whenever I drift away from him because of my sins. This period of Advent is for me to quiet down and reflect on my life and be guided by the Holy Spirit to which area of my life needs transformation to be closer to God. Then, I go for a good confession where I am truly repentant and ask God to heal me through the Sacrament of Reconciliation so that I can truly rejoice in the birth of Jesus.
With Love,
Elena
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