Gospel: Luke 9:1-6
Whatever house you enter, stay there and leave from there. And as for those who do not welcome you, when you leave that town, shake the dust from your feet in testimony against them.” Then they set out and went from village to village proclaiming the good news and curing diseases everywhere.
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Reflection:
Do you depend on yourself or on God? These are the two basic questions that we face up to everyday. What does it mean to depend on yourself? It means that you rely on yourself alone. You depend on your own strength and understanding and God has no place in your heart.
When you depend on God it doesn’t mean that you will relax. And let the blessings of God come into your doorstep like the mailman putting your mail into your mailbox. When you depend on God you simply do everything within your power to have what you want or to achieve what you want. But at the end of the day you humbly submit everything to the will of God and not to your own selfish will.
When Jesus told the apostles to take nothing for their missionary journey (Luke 9:3). Was He telling them to take nothing because everything that you need will simply fall from heaven to your lap? Of course not! Jesus was rather telling them to do what they were commissioned to do and not to worry because He will use people of faith to provide for their provisions.
This is basically the same on how we live and share our own faith. We don’t have to worry about anything. Because Jesus will provide for us for as long as we work for the fulfillment of our own Baptismal mission which is to help the Lord spread the Good News of our salvation.
Have you already done something to share Jesus and His teachings? - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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