ACKNOWLEDGE GOD’S BLESSINGS

Ordinary Time: Week 26 Readings I - Bar. 1: 15-22 II - Lk. 10: 13-16 ACKNOWLEDGE GOD’S BLESSINGS In today’s Gospel passage Jesus condemns the cities that failed to repent even after witnessing the mighty works of Jesus. On the roads of Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum Jesus performed so many miracles and alas! The people in their stubbornness of heart they never relented to repent. The ruins found today bears testimony to the words of Jesus. Had these miracles been done in the pagan cities of Tyre, Sidon and Sodom, they would have turned from their wickedness, yielded to repentance and consequently to conversion of heart. Often we are like those cities, Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum. We may be receiving grace after grace and blessings after blessing. But in the moment of testing times we fail to place our trust in the Lord. It is at those moments we are called to assert our faith and trust in the Lord. Only stubborn people don’t. Be not stubborn like the people of Chorazin, Bethsaida and Capernaum, instead, be open to the voice of God that comes especially through the Scripture.