Drawn by our Daddy!

WORD 2day: Thursday, 3rd week in Easter time

May 5, 2022: Acts 8: 26-40; John 6: 44-51

The readings taken together have a wonderful message for us: if we have the christian faith, it is not by chance; it is by choice... not ours, but the Lord's! You did not choose me, I chose you, declares the Lord. No one can come to me, unless drawn by the Father who sent me.

We have come to know the Lord, drawn by our Father and Mother in heaven! It is the Lord who has willed to draw us to Godself. Our 'yes' at Baptism and a reassertion of it at Confirmation has been our response to this initiative of God. The point of discussion is, whether we are faithful to this yes, all our life and at every moment of our daily life.

Let us look at the way Philip was transported from one place to the other, in order that he could bring people to know the Word, to know the Lord and to get into a relationship with the Lord for life! People were being drawn to the Lord and the apostles were instruments in the process! It is with the same love that God continues to draw us to our Lord and Saviour, so that we may experience what that love of God forever and in its fullness. 

The Bread of life and the Blood of the new and everlasting covenant, are the nourishment in this journey, towards the Lord and towards the experience of that inexhaustible love. All through the journey the Lord accompanies us and instructs us... if we really listen, we will soon realise how special we are; and how we are drawn by our Father, our loving Daddy!