WORD 2day: 22nd September, 2017
Friday, 24th week in Ordinary Time
1 Tim 6: 2-12; Lk 8: 1-3
Many today follow a hit and run policy with regard to sufferings and struggles, but wish to call themselves strong, mature and rational. At the most they agree that they are rebellious, but they fail to understand their weakness, those who question God during their difficulties but do not stay on long enough to get the right answers. Coincidentally, or miraculously, a person approached today telling me that it has been long since the person has left the Catholic Church, because the person lost a dear friend just around 25 years old. The person had raised questions such as, Why this person? Why now? etc and left the Church in rebellion against God. I gently asked the following question - 'you raised a question unto the Lord, did you wait for an answer at all?'
There is nothing wrong in raising questions to God, we should be ready to wait for the response. Wait long and wait hard - that is what we mean a fight, a good fight of faith. There will a response, an answer from the Lord - but you should be there to behold that response.Then you would be in a position to say: I have fought the good fight of faith! Until then there is one thing we are called to do: to Follow the Lord wherever He leads.