How are you as a team player? Do people normally want you in their team or not? If not, look into yourself to see why that is so.- Daily Reflections October 25,2014

UNTIL WE REACH THE STATURE OF CHRIST

 

Paul must have seen so many of those athletic competitions in progressive Corinth during his time. He spoke often about discipline, training, asceticism, and everything about “running the race” and “winning the prize” that he must have been very familiar with doing everything so as to win an earthly prize.

       Anyone who has joined a team to play ball and compete with other teams knows what it takes to even have a chance of making it to the semi-finals.

       The word that immediately comes to mind is “training.” But training alone does not clinch it. Individual talents and skills are not enough to put a team to the pinnacle of victory. Something more than just individual capacities is needed. This time around, what springs to mind is “teamwork.”

       St. Paul should know. There was a time he was not a team player. He acted single-handedly as Church persecutor at one time. After his dramatic conversion, he did become part of a tag team of disciples, and referred to himself as one “born out of the normal course” as an Apostle. As a team player, he even had the courage to call the attention of his team leader, Peter, when the latter was clearly in the wrong. Together, the college of Apostles learned. Together, they grew, building up the Body of Christ.

       As a band of brothers, their aim was clear: to attain the unity of faith. As a band of believers, their goal, too, was focused — mature manhood, all the way towards attaining the full stature of Christ.

       I have always been a poor athlete. Being competitive in that department was not exactly my forte. But athlete or not, I knew one thing early on about life in general — that for us “to get there,” we all need to learn to do things “together.”

       In this journey called life, be it in sports or in the spiritual life, we all need help and support from each other. We all need one another as we run towards fullness of stature in Christ! Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB

 

REFLECTION QUESTIONS: How are you as a team player? Do people normally want you in their team or not? If not, look into yourself to see why that is so.

 

Lord, help me find a team that would support me in my journey to You.