“FOCUS ON YOUR DESTINY” urged our Preacher, Rev. Fr. Jose Hugo Aggabao, in a homily during a Eucharistic Celebration at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Tuguegarao City.
He shared a personal experience of how he learned to ride on a bicycle. His father advised him not to look at his feet on the pedals but to look forward towards where he wants to go. Not heeding his father’s advise he at first tried several times to balance himself on the bike looking at his feet, but miserably failed. So, following his father’s advise, he focused his eyes on the road towards his destination which eventually enabled him to drive the bicycle. This experience taught him a practical lesson - “Focus on your Destiny”.
As a seminarian he applied this lesson during the long trying years of priestly training and thus, among a class of 30, he was the only who made it to the priesthood.
He further exhorted us to apply this lesson particularly to our life destiny. For Christ has said: “.. what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his life.” (Matt. 16:26)
Reflecting on this statement of Our Lord Jesus Christ when He talked to the apostles at Caesarea Philippi, I could not but ask the question: ‘What is this life that is so valuable that it is worth more than the whole world?’
The answer to this question is a matter of Faith. For it is something that cannot be the subject of a scientific research. It is something that cannot be proven by logical reasoning. It is something beyond man’s capacity to fully understand. It is a great mystery.
For those, however, who believe in the Divinity of Christ, it must be something that is true and real; for Christ, Who is God, cannot deceive nor can He be deceived.
Hence, we have to see what our Christian Faith tells in answering this question.
St. John in his First Letter (3:1) says: “See how great a love the Father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are.”
For me, this is our DESTINY – to become children of God. To be a child of God means to be united with Him. And to be united with God means to live with Him for all eternity, because God’s life is forever without end.
To make our life meaningful we should “FOCUS ON OUR DESTINY”. For if we fail to attain this Destiny, our life on earth would all be in vain. And that, I believe, is the warning of our Lord Jesus Christ when He uttered those words to His apostles.
By: Salvador B. Cagurangan
Aug. 9, 2009
I was truly inspired with what Rev.Fr.Jose Hugo told one of his homilies. In fact,he as a priest serves as an inspiration for those who wished to follow Christ's ministry.
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