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“RISEN WITH CHRIST”

Easter Reflections

Thursday, 4^thMay 2017.

Third Week of Easter

Acts 8:26-40;

Ps 66:8-9,16-17,20 (R. 1);

Jn 6:44-51.

DRAWN TOWARDS JESUS!

Karl Rahner says, “Whenever I speak about myself I speak about God, and whenever I speak about God I speak about me.” Our life journey is also mostly drawing everything and everybody to oneself. In our busy world it’s so very easy to let ourselves become distracted by the many competing voices. It’s easy to hear the pulling, and even pushing, of the world and all its enticements. The world has become quite good at penetrating our short attention spans and offering quick satisfactions that ultimately leave us empty.

But God’s voice and His invitation are quite different. They are found in interior silence. However, we need not be in a monastery in order to achieve this interior silence. Rather, it’s achieved by faithful periods of prayer each day, and a formed habit of turning to God in all things. It’s achieved when we respond to God’s calling, and then do it again, and again, and so forth. This builds a habit of being drawn, hearing, responding and being drawn in even closer so as to respond again.

In today’s Gospel, we come to realize that as we are created in the likeness and image of God, we are drawn towards God. Deep down, man longs for God. Thus Jesus rightly claims “no one can come to me unless the Father draws him” (Jn 6: 44). In the first reading we see that an Ethiopian while reading the scriptures, encounters the Truth in the scripture with the help of Philip, and later accepts Christ as his Savior and Lord.

Let us take time then to be drawn to Jesus. Take a few minutes (or more) of silence today. Close your eyes and listen. Listen to God speaking to you. When He draws you, respond to Him with much generosity. This is the best choice you can make each day!

Prayer: Lord, please draw me in, draw me close and help me to recognize Your voice. As I hear You calling, help me to respond to You with much generosity. My life is Yours, dear Lord. Jesus, I trust in You. Amen.