DOING GOD’S
WILL NOW MAKES ME HAPPY. This is how I
feel whenever I become aware that what I am doing is what God wants me to do
now.
In
the Gospel today, Feb. 17, 2012, JESUS says: “If a man wishes to come after me, he must deny his very self, take up
his cross and follow in my steps.
Whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for
my sake and the gospel’s will save it.”(Mark 8:34).
For the past several days I have
been experiencing real peace and joy whenever I am doing something that I
believe is what God wants me to do. It
is a joy that comes from a conviction that it is God’s Will and,
therefore, it is an activity that
pleases Him which gives me an
opportunity to serve Him and thus
manifest my deep gratitude for all the blessings He has bestowed on me.
To paraphrase the words of Jesus in
Mark 8:34, “TOTAL SELF-SURRENDER TO GOD IS WHAT PLEASES HIM”. To me, this means:
1. To
sincerely desire to know what God really wants in any given situation.
2. To
be willing to do whatever needs to be done.
3. To
do it in the best way possible.
While meditating on these words of our Lord Jesus
Christ, I was
looking at the crucifix, and somehow I saw how
in His crucifixion, death and resurrection He exemplified what He meant.
Before His crucifixion Our Lord
Jesus Christ prayed: “Lord, not my will but your will be done.”(Mark
14:36). And so, despite all the
sufferings that He had to undergo, He surrendered Himself to those who wanted
to crucify Him. He even prayed: “Father,
forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.”(Luke 23:34).
After his crucifixion and death,
however, came the RESURRECTION.
This
is the great mystery of God’s omnipotence which can overcome any evil and which
is beyond the power of anyone to disregard.
Hence, to the total self-surrender that Our Lord Jesus Christ manifested
God’s response was a GLORIOUS LIFE.
For me, therefore, I believe that a
total surrender of myself to the Will of God now shall blossom into a Glorious
Life of UNION WITH GOD FOREVER.
By: Buddy Cagurangan
February
19, 2012
