Thursday, 3rd week in Eastertide
19th April, 2018: Acts 8: 26-40; Jn 6: 44-51
A couple of days ago, on a Facebook community, a person had posted a message: Give me one good reason why I should leave my denomination to join the Catholic Church? There were many who were giving him reasons, so valid and so edifying. But when I saw it I felt like, and I did post the following lines:
"Many can give you umpteen reasons to join the Catholic Church, but none of them can suffice, for you arrive there if you feel you are called! Yes, you need to feel the call of the Father, the call of the Saviour, the prompting of the Spirit to arrive there! If you have it in you, join!"
Jesus declares today, it is the Lord who draws one to himself. And the Lord draws those who are drawn to the Lord in their choices, in their priorities, in their daily decisions. It is of course the Lord who initiates but it is upto us to readily and promptly acknowledge these initiatives and respond to them from the depths of our beings. The one who begins the good work in us will surely bring it to its completion (cf. Phil 1:6) in God's own time.
Phillip is mightily used by God in the first reading today - taken from place to place by the Spirit. It was because he allowed himself to be used; he submitted to the plans of God. The Court Official is chosen to belong to the Lord because he had a fundamental thirst for the knowledge of the matters of God.
Yes, the Lord is drawing you close to himself...are your ready and willing to let yourself be drawn?