WORD 2day: Monday, 4th week in Easter time
May 12, 2025: 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 that we can ever imagine. While that is the fact, the question is, 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 understanding 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 on their face: who are we to stand in God's way?
In fact, 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! We might think we are doing the best we can, but we might be doing only what we like... and what assurance do we have that we are doing the best? The best is what the Lord wants of us... and how do we know it, if we do not surrender ourselves totally into the hands of the Lord.
What matters is that we identify what it is within us, that stands between and our Lord. And if we become aware of what it is that stands on the way, we can grow to be true sheep of the Divine Shepherd!