Readings: Gen 22:1-2, 9-13, 15-18. Rom 8:31b-34. Mk 9:2-10
At certain points in our lives, we’re blessed with various manifestations of glory. We achieve a goal. We graduate from school. We’re elevated at the work place. We hit a milestone. We experience a new revelation. We join an exclusive club. The joy from such a manifestation is something we’d love to hold on to. Yet, it seems that such a manifestation is actually an invitation into a greater level of personal effort.
It takes a lot of effort to maintain the level of glory already achieved. More hard work is necessary to deploy the manifestation and ensure that it bears fruit. We must step out of our comfort zones, out of what we’re generally used to, and into new and unfamiliar territory. We must give up the good we already know, and have, for the better that we don’t know yet. And we have to continually be in touch with the Source of everything, listening and obeying.
May the glorified Jesus Christ grant us the grace to obey God’s voice no matter what our surroundings propose.