Monday, March 29

Monday of Holy Week

John Keble, Priest (1866)

Lamentations 1:1-2, 6-12

Psalms 51:1-18, 69:1-23

2 Corinthians 1:1-7

Mark 11:12-25

Mark 11: 12-25

God wants for us to follow him (obviously). He does not want us to be distracted and wants us to worship for him for the right reasons. He does not want us to worship him because our peers are, and he does not want us to follow him because we need guidance at certain moments of our lives. He appreciates us worshipping him in the most random of times, not just in a Sunday church mass. We should not feel obligated to worship him but we should want to glorify him.

Nobody understands why Jesus destroyed the fig tree, but it could possibly be in order to rid everybody of distractions that prevent people from coming to God first for guidance. God is not completely predictable, and we should not expect him to be. We should allow ourselves to put our trust in him because our faith is never consistent, and there is no right or wrong way to worship him, as long as we believe in him. God so badly wants us to come to him when we have issues in our lives, and he desires to help us through our struggles.

God is a mystery to any human. It is crucial to understand that in this life we will not receive all of the answers to all of our questions. He knows our faith. He loves us. He wants to be our best friend.

Connie Gilbert