I was expecting a package to be delivered one day and kept checking the porch to no avail. Then I received a text from our oldest daughter asking if I had brought in the package that was delivered. Sure enough, I looked again, and there it was, sitting on my front porch.
Because she gets text alerts notifying her of package deliveries whenever she orders a package on our behalf, she can tell me what is right under my nose, even though she lives 50 miles away!
The Good News that Jesus came to save us is likewise right under our nose, but we often miss it because we are either looking in the wrong place, or we have not yet heard about his arrival and therefore, are not seeking him at all.
It is up to those who believe in Jesus to get the word out. If we don’t, how will those who are seeking him, or those who have not yet heard, discover what a tremendous gift we have been given through his incarnation (God taking on humanity in the person of Jesus.)
The other part of that is too often we are limited because the breadth of our life seems to be encompassed by our ordinary, daily tasks, and if they go smoothly, we miss our need for God altogether.
Our disconnect from God is revealed by the singular lens
through which we view ourselves and the world around us. We forget that God is the Creator of
everything—our life and our world. All that we have been
given should be experienced and appreciated for the sacrifice made for us.
I was reading a reflection that talked about our need to sacrifice our “sense of self-sufficiency, by which we are inclined to be the prime mover of everything in our world” in order to be free to accept God’s “divine invitation” to share in his life, which comes through loving others.
Today, I would encourage you to ask God to remove from your path the obstacles that are stunting your vision of his presence in your life. Ask him to help you see the bigger picture that reveals him as Creator and strive to offer yourself back to him so that he may be glorified in you.
Lent is around the corner. It is like a text alert, sounding the alarm that it is time to prepare ourselves to share in the mission of Christ so that the rest of the world will not miss what is right under its nose!
Janet Cassidy
janetcassidy.blogspot.com
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