God’s ways are unfathomable

We do not know how long God can work on us. Sure, it already happened that you had an idea, but that rejected you. They did not acknowledge you, or they laughed at you, but it turned out that you were right or that your solution was the best in the end. It may not often happen, but I know one is sorry.

We see how the inhabitants of Nazareth rejected Jesus, “the prophet is worshiped everywhere, but not in his own country, among his relatives ”(Mk 6: 4). It’s hard to help someone when they don’t want help. And it is tough watching someone hurt someone we love whom we can help, but we can not. Jesus also liked his neighbors in Nazareth; he did we assume that according to tradition, he lived in Egypt for 7 years and then went to Nazareth, where he was obedient to his parents. He started teaching at about 30 years old, and those. He lived with them for 23 years, working as a carpenter, so they could get to know him around. And now he has come and wants to pass on to them a new doctrine, the doctrine of salvation. But it is still for them a carpenter, and for some, he is perhaps a puffball who came from the roads and thinks someone about themselves.

It does not happen that the new priest goes to the town or village to follow the chaplain, where it grew up. This is reasonable, because for many, he will remain only the boy who did this and that when he was little. But we know that he may know better the mindset or mistakes of locals like other priests. But the possibility of prejudice is greater than the benefits of knowledge. Brothers and sisters, it is not good to have prejudices against someone only because we think we know the man. He can always give us something new. The older man can tell us something from experience, the young man some new perspective on the thing. But the truth is, we can still learn something new. Something to us enriches. And we can also learn what God’s will is if we are open to the voice.

Lord, we will hear him in the voices of our neighbors, for Christ himself, he said, “Whoever handed a glass of water to one of these little ones, handed it to me.” But he doesn’t just have to ask for mercy to give us a chance to get some merits for eternal life. He can also give us some advice, help, the recommendation for our lives, listen and fear prejudice. Prejudices are bad because if someone condemns someone who speaks to him, he has in his image, not the image of his speech. After all, the rejection of good advice from a man against whom we are prejudiced is pride, and that, as we know, is one of the main one’s sins because we want to exalt ourselves above God.

I recently read a story with a similar idea – about prayer and prejudices: One priest wrote a sermon on God’s providence when he suddenly began to break frowns. After a while, the radio sounded that the dam had broken and the village inhabitants must be evacuated. The priest said that he would show an example of God’s providence. He prayed to God to save him and continued to discipline. The water rose to the house’s threshold when the boat came to the window, and the rescuer called him to board the boat. He refused. When water she went up by the window, the boat came again, but the priest refused again. As the water rose higher, he climbed to the roof, but the boat refused for the third time. But as soon as the boat pulled away, washed away, the foundations did not last, and the house collapsed. When the priest is before the Lord in a personal judgment, he immediately ran out to him with the question: “Why didn’t you save me, because I asked you to, because I wanted to prove your providence to the people. ” But God replied,“ Why are you complaining? A who do you think sent the three boats to you? ” You see, dear believer, God will take care of us when we pray to him. God will tell us what a mistake we make in our lives. God still to us, he says. But he doesn’t have to appear in a cloud or a burning bush, nor does he have to send an angel.

It is often enough for God to send an ordinary person in our way. It must have happened to you that someone told you something. And maybe it happened to you that you have rejected his advice because you do not like the person you like came. And maybe it happened to you that you then regretted this rejection. Let’s try to make such regret as little as possible.