SOWERS OF GOD'S WORD
“A sower went out to sow.” – Matthew 13:3
Jonah
was a faithful prophet of God. Whenever God spoke, he announced it to
His people. But one night, God told him to speak to Nineveh, a sinful
city. For Jonah, he knew that if he speaks and they repent, God would
forgive them. He didn’t think they deserved forgiveness so he initially
ran away from God’s call. Our Nineveh today can be the people whom
God wants us to talk to about Him. Maybe He asks us to correct that
person’s wrongdoing. Or maybe it’s just to remind that person that God
loves him or her.
There are times when we don’t obey for different reasons: fear of
rejection; political incorrectness; the person knew us before our
encounter with God and talking about Him might freak them out; or, just
like Jonah, we think they don’t deserve the mercy of God.
But all of us are called to be prophets of God in the sense of being
proclaimers of His Word or sowers of His messages. We have been given
the seeds, and the Owner of the land has instructed us to sow. At the
end of the day, either we go back to the Owner with a full sack or an
empty one as we have sown regardless of where the seeds may fall. Emmanuel Calayan (emmanuel_calayan@yahoo.com)
Reflection: Who are the people whom God wants you to talk to about Him?
Lord, grant me an obedient and courageous heart that I may obey when You instruct me to share Your love.
St. Sharbel Makhlouf, pray for us.
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