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Ga 17:11b-19
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Daily reflection _ purpose for your life
PURPOSE FOR YOUR LIFE
We need to trust in our heavenly Father and in His call and purpose for our lives!
John Henry Newman wrote: "God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission -- I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons. He has not created me for nothing. Therefore, I will trust Him, whatever, wherever I am. I cannot be thrown away." We need to trust in our heavenly Father and in His call and purpose for our lives!
In today's readings, a very significant word used by Jesus Christ in His prayer captures perhaps the essential point of discipleship. This word is "consecrate" (Jn 17:17). Jesus, in praying for the disciples, says, "Consecrate them in truth." "I consecrate myself for them, so that they also may be consecrated in truth" (17:19.) The basic meaning of the word is to set aside or-in this context-to be set aside for the good of the world. In the Mass is the consecration of Jesus to the Father, His self-giving suffering and death. We assist at this ritual re-presenting of His sacrificial suffering and death so that we may benefit from it by joining our own lives to His in self-giving. St. Paul quotes a saying of Jesus which we only find in his life, "It is more blessed to give than to receive" (Acts 20:35). This is to be a part of our day-to-day lives, just as Paul was and recommended. What stands out in Jesus Himself and that great model of spiritual discipleship, Paul, is this giving of self to God's work, to the good of the world and of our fellow human beings.
In the responsorial psalm let us pray: "Sing to God that He may show forth His power" (Ps. 68:29). Amen.