“The Lord bestows His blessings there, where He finds the vessels
empty.” ― The Imitation of Christ by Thomas A Kempis.
We are all going to blessed by the Lord according
to His purpose and plan at one or the other time in our life.
When we are in prayers first thing we have to do is
empty ourselves from our selfish desires and pursue desires of the kingdom of
God. But the truth is most of us after being in prayers for years we fail
miserably.
This is the main reason that most of the Catholics
ask for prayers instead of praying themselves. This happens because most of us
pray to get material things from God and we are not interested in spiritual
growth.
Most of our Catholics flock in retreats, novenas
and pilgrimage hoping something good will happen to them automatically because
of attending or visiting. But truth is nothing good is going to happen unless
we build our confidence around it.
We have to empty our self from all the desires of
the world and pleasure of the flesh from inside us so that we may be empty
vessels so that God can fill that vessel with His blessings.
Today most of the catholic think good job, good
bank balance, good family, good children, good vehicle and good health is
blessing from God and because of that they come to church to receive it but in
reality These are all fruits of the blessing. Blessing means
favour and protection of God.
We may have all the fruit of blessing and if we do
not have protection of God, we can lose all the fruits of the blessing in no
time. We need favour from God all the time so that we may know that He has
given us everything we do not deserve and also protection of God so that we may
not only lose the fruits of the blessings but also our life.
Today as we are celebrating
feast of Pentecost we have to analyze our life and see whether we have grown in
the Kingdom of God, if we think we have grown in the Kingdom of God then we
have to check and see how many souls we have brought back to the Kingdom of God
who have gone astray. If we have not brought any souls to the kingdom of God
after growing then our spirituality is selfish and zero.
Date: 31:05: 2020.
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