Today as we celebrate All Saints' Day, when we honor all saints, those both known as well as those unknown, we can be encouraged if we keep in mind how Pope Francis has reminded us that we are all called to be saints. This might seem like such a lofty calling that it is beyond our grasp. Perhaps we obscure what we try to see through our own tendency to short-sightedness. Maybe we fall into the trap of feeling like we can't do something because we rely too much on ourselves. When we refuse to depend on God, we are telling God that we do not want Him to perform miracles through us.
God can work miracles through us if we but give our consent. If we simply submit and give our assent to the Word of God like Our Blessed Mother Mary did, if we merely respond to God that it be done unto us according to His Word,* then we welcome Jesus into our hearts, and show God that we wish that the Holy Spirit dwell in us.
Until we offer this complete obedience to God, we are cutting ourselves off from how the Holy Spirit can radically transform us. We can't do much without God, but God can do much through us. What is impossible for humans is possible for God,** for nothing is impossible for God.***
If we open our hearts to God, God can work wonders through us. If we allow ourselves to be humbled, God will give us the grace**** and the strength we need to do His will. God will exalt those who humble themselves.*****
In deciding whether or not we would like to be humble, we determine who we will become. We spend our time well when we ask ourselves who we would like to become. Having pondered who we wish to become, we then do well to request what we need to evolve into who God has always intended us to be.
If we pray to God that He give us what we need to do His will, He will give it to us. Those who ask will receive. Those who seek will find. Those who knock will have the door opened to them.******
God answers the prayers of those who seek to serve Him. God gives people what they request when they seek to be who He made them to be.
As I recently suggested to someone, God made us to pray to Him, to praise Him, to adore Him, to glorify Him, and to honor Him. When we do so with all our heart, with all our mind, with all our soul, and with all our strength,******* and when we love our neighbor as ourselves,******** then we become who God made us to be. When the will of God is what we will, then we are saints. When we live the will of God, we become who God has always meant us to be. Amen.
* Luke 1:38
** Matthew 19:26; Mark 10:27; Luke 18:27
*** Genesis 18:14; Luke 1:37
**** 1 Peter 5:5; James 4:6
***** Matthew 23:12; Luke 14:11; Luke 18:14
****** Matthew 7:7-8
******* Deuteronomy 6:5; Deuteronomy 10:12; Matthew 22:37; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27
******** Matthew 22:39; Mark 12:31; Luke 10:27; Leviticus 19:18; Romans 13:9; Galatians 5:14
God can work miracles through us if we but give our consent. If we simply submit and give our assent to the Word of God like Our Blessed Mother Mary did, if we merely respond to God that it be done unto us according to His Word,* then we welcome Jesus into our hearts, and show God that we wish that the Holy Spirit dwell in us.
Until we offer this complete obedience to God, we are cutting ourselves off from how the Holy Spirit can radically transform us. We can't do much without God, but God can do much through us. What is impossible for humans is possible for God,** for nothing is impossible for God.***
If we open our hearts to God, God can work wonders through us. If we allow ourselves to be humbled, God will give us the grace**** and the strength we need to do His will. God will exalt those who humble themselves.*****
In deciding whether or not we would like to be humble, we determine who we will become. We spend our time well when we ask ourselves who we would like to become. Having pondered who we wish to become, we then do well to request what we need to evolve into who God has always intended us to be.
If we pray to God that He give us what we need to do His will, He will give it to us. Those who ask will receive. Those who seek will find. Those who knock will have the door opened to them.******
God answers the prayers of those who seek to serve Him. God gives people what they request when they seek to be who He made them to be.
As I recently suggested to someone, God made us to pray to Him, to praise Him, to adore Him, to glorify Him, and to honor Him. When we do so with all our heart, with all our mind, with all our soul, and with all our strength,******* and when we love our neighbor as ourselves,******** then we become who God made us to be. When the will of God is what we will, then we are saints. When we live the will of God, we become who God has always meant us to be. Amen.
* Luke 1:38
** Matthew 19:26; Mark 10:27; Luke 18:27
*** Genesis 18:14; Luke 1:37
**** 1 Peter 5:5; James 4:6
***** Matthew 23:12; Luke 14:11; Luke 18:14
****** Matthew 7:7-8
******* Deuteronomy 6:5; Deuteronomy 10:12; Matthew 22:37; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27
******** Matthew 22:39; Mark 12:31; Luke 10:27; Leviticus 19:18; Romans 13:9; Galatians 5:14
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