Thursday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time

In today’s reading, Paul tells us, “None of us lives for ourselves…If we live, we live for the Lord and if we die, we die for the Lord.

 

In addition, since we are the Lord’s in everything we do. God looks after us as a shepherd looks after his sheep. He searches for us and keeps us safe. We should not be offended by Christ’s preference for those who are not righteous. Our understanding is a sign of our deep regard for his love for all creation.

 

Saint Francis De Sales wrote, “to sum up, God’s good pleasure is the supreme object of the soul. Wherever it sees it, it runs after it. The soul always searches for the place where there is more of God.”

 

Jesus shows us where that place is: with the alienated, the sinner, the discouraged and the sick. Seek Him there and you will find Him.