God's Lead

The WORD today (see http://usccb.org/bible/readings/080317.cfm) reminds me that I should always follow God's leading in my life. 

I believe that some people, especially those who have strong characters or are leaders, have a natural aversion to being subjected to authority. They feel that they should not be instructed or they know the right thing to do, or the right way to do things. I believe we as human beings a lot of times feel this way towards God.

Impatience prevents God from leading our lives.

In the first reading, we see that the people during this time let God lead them. They probably did not always agree with what God wanted them to do. Probably a lot of times they would rather go on their pace – to continue walking or to stop walking. However, they let God lead them. They followed what God wanted them to do – to walk or to stop. As a result, God was with them and they were blessed and protected.

In our lives, we do not always let God take the lead. We do not always follow God’s lead. We want to do things our way. we want things to happen in our time. We sometimes forget that we as human beings have limited capacity. We don’t know everything. We cannot see everything. We do not know the big picture. This is the reason why we should just surrender and let God take the lead. As we do so, we can be assured that we will always be protected and things will happen according to God’s perfect plan.

May we be inspired by the readings, and make the decision and have the will to give God control over our lives.

Father God,

Thank you for today. Thank you for another day to live. thank you for another reminder. Lord, sorry for the times I become impatient. Sorry for the times I let my emotions and desires have the best of me. Sorry for disrespecting and disobeying you. Lord, I come to you with a repentant heart. I ask that you forgive me, and that you help me to just trust in you. help me surrender to you. As I do so, as I take your lead, I know you will always be with me and my journey would be a better, safer one. amen.

Blessed day!

In Christ,

-g-

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August 3, 2017
Thursday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time
Lectionary: 404

Reading 1EX 40:16-21, 34-38

Moses did exactly as the LORD had commanded him.
On the first day of the first month of the second year
the Dwelling was erected.
It was Moses who erected the Dwelling.
He placed its pedestals, set up its boards, put in its bars,
and set up its columns.
He spread the tent over the Dwelling
and put the covering on top of the tent,
as the LORD had commanded him.
He took the commandments and put them in the ark;
he placed poles alongside the ark and set the propitiatory upon it.
He brought the ark into the Dwelling and hung the curtain veil,
thus screening off the ark of the commandments,
as the LORD had commanded him.

Then the cloud covered the meeting tent,
and the glory of the LORD filled the Dwelling.
Moses could not enter the meeting tent,
because the cloud settled down upon it
and the glory of the LORD filled the Dwelling.
Whenever the cloud rose from the Dwelling,
the children of Israel would set out on their journey.
But if the cloud did not lift, they would not go forward;
only when it lifted did they go forward.
In the daytime the cloud of the LORD was seen over the Dwelling;
whereas at night, fire was seen in the cloud
by the whole house of Israel
in all the stages of their journey.

Responsorial PsalmPS 84:3, 4, 5-6A AND 8A, 11

R. (2) How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord, mighty God!
My soul yearns and pines 
for the courts of the LORD.
My heart and my flesh
cry out for the living God.
R. How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord, mighty God!
Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest
in which she puts her young–
Your altars, O LORD of hosts,
my king and my God!
R. How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord, mighty God!
Blessed they who dwell in your house!
continually they praise you.
Blessed the men whose strength you are!
They go from strength to strength.
R. How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord, mighty God!
I had rather one day in your courts
than a thousand elsewhere;
I had rather lie at the threshold of the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
R. How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord, mighty God!

AlleluiaSEE ACTS 16:14B

R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Open our hearts, O Lord,
to listen to the words of your Son.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

GospelMT 13:47-53

Jesus said to the disciples:
"The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea,
which collects fish of every kind.
When it is full they haul it ashore
and sit down to put what is good into buckets.
What is bad they throw away.
Thus it will be at the end of the age.
The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous
and throw them into the fiery furnace,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth."

"Do you understand all these things?"
They answered, "Yes."
And he replied,
"Then every scribe who has been instructed in the Kingdom of heaven
is like the head of a household who brings from his storeroom
both the new and the old."

When Jesus finished these parables, he went away from there.