Homily for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time 2015
“What are you
looking for?” Brothers and sisters that
is the very question we must ponder each single day, especially as we gather
here week after week. What is it that we
are looking for in life? Are we looking
to be successful? Are we looking for
good health? We can come up with so many
questions to ask.
Often times
our Lord asks us to ponder a question, we respond with a question, then He
extends the invitation to follow Him as He did in today’s Gospel from John,
“Come and you will see.” Reflecting of
God’s word today we must ponder are we willing and able to allow ourselves to
trust in God’s will. See many of the
questions we could ask we could very well come up with our own answers and
there lies the problem. We are not
called to do our will but rather His. In
that familiar prayer we pray “the Our Father” we pray that “thy will be done.”
God
calls…however sometimes His voice is drowned out. Samuel in today’s first reading was hearing
the voice, but did not first recognize it from God. Sometimes it takes a couple of times for it
to become clear. That is called
discernment. It is important for us to
sit still…to pray, to reflect, and to respond.
This week in our prayers I want us to reflect on these two phrases,
“Speak, for your servant is listening,” and “Here am I Lord; I come to do your
will.” It’s not our will we are called
to follow…it is God’s and if we can find the grace and the strength to do
that…we will be truly happy!
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