Don’t you know that it’s God’s business to WORRY? Yes, it is and his worries is absolutely about me; for you, I really can’t say. If not why did he send Jesus his only begotten Son to die for me (cf. Jn. 3:16)? Why didn’t I think of this all these while? So what then is my stake here: faithfulness and keying lovingly into his WILL, allowing him to lead and I follow. Wao!!! What a beauty that has been steering menacingly at me all these while.
Ps. 23 beautifully lays it bear – God is my shepherd and in him I have everything, all I need is to faithfully and lovingly follow him; laying before him all my pains, sorrows, disappointments and frustration as King David did.
WORRYING IS GOD’S BUSINESS. Yes it is. Right from the beginning creation to the fall, which led to the wonderful prophecies of his birth, sufferings and death to his resurrection and ascension. The visible sign of which is the brutalized and broken body of Jesus (cf. Jn. 12:32), the wounds that brought salvation and removes all worries (cf. Is. 53:5).
He worried for Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego who defied the orders of Nebuchadnezzar (Dan. 3); also for Daniel (cf. Dan. 6); for Abraham who never lost faith him and was patient to the end (Gen. 18;22). What about David, Zachariah and Elizabeth, Peter and Paul?
If God did all these for them why not me too. My major challenge is that I have not allowed him to. I want to do it all alone, no wonder I fall so often and get easily broken by these unnecessary worries.
I need to change my strategy now seriously so that God will do all the worries for me. A very serious and conscious effort is in dire need here so as to be able to lovingly and faithfully focusing on him – his wounded, brutalized and broken body crucified for me. Let him carry the cross for me and am willing to follow.
My most sweet and adorable Jesus I cast this moment all my cares, pains and worries on your wounded body on the cross of Calvary. Give me grace to faithfully and lovingly focus constantly on that strength that your victorious cross gives in carrying my own cross after you. Amen
Why not pray with the song today: “I need thee every hour” and with St. Pio’s “Stay with me, Lord.” Study today meditatively the 15th chapter of the book of the prophet Jeremiah.
SHEPHERD ME O LORD, BEYOND MY STRENGTH.
By Fr. Charles Emore