WORD 2day: 4th Monday of Easter
May 13, 2019: Acts 11: 1-18; John 10:1-10
I have come that you may have life, life in all its fullness. The Lord has come, the Lord has encountered us, and the Lord has done everything best. Have we received the fullness of life that the Lord brought us? Aren't we still given into frustrations and discouragements, meaninglessness and immaturities?
In the first reading today we have a clue to understand this. While the Lord was ready and willing and all set to shower the Holy Spirit on everyone, there were some who were standing on the way! Peter challenges it among them, who are we to stand in God's way?
We allow a lot of things to stand between us and God... it could be our pride, our ego, our laziness, our malice or could be anything that resists receiving the grace of fullness of life! If we become aware of what it is that stands on the way, we can grow to be true sheep of the Divine Shepherd.