“This is the time of fulfillment. The Kingdom of God is at
hand. Repent, and believe in the Gospel.” As I was at prayer this morning, I
shared with the Lord how frustrated I was with myself, as I had fallen into Satan’s trap of looking at the
weaknesses of another. Luckily the person with whom I was about to unload my
story challenged me, stating her belief
that everyone does the best he/she can do given the circumstances with which he/she
is dealing.
I asked the Lord for His counsel and He reminded me that I
was looking into a mirror. The weakness I was about to complain about in the
other reflected that weakness in me. The
other was a mirror image of myself. The fact that I was perturbed by the other’s
behavior indicated that that inclination existed within me as well. Jesus “caught”
me, just as He invited Simon and Andrew (see today’s Gospel, Mark 1: 14-20) to “come after me; I will make you
fishers of men [women].”
How important it is that
we allow Jesus to cast His net over us, pull us in and away from the net
of the evil into which Satan so
insistently wants to lure us. Yes, as
stated in the opening lines of today’s Gospel, “this is the time of
fulfillment. The Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the Gospel.”
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