Do you wait for signs before you act? - Daily Reflections February 17,2014

DO NOT DELAY

 

I am a “sign-seeking” person. I grew up loving signs. I can sense that I share this tendency with others out there, or even with you, as you reflect with me today. We wait for signs and we are cautious with whatever is presented to us before we proceed.

       I remember when I was a seminarian some 30 years ago, I made use of the art of timing before I would ask something from our formator or a fellow seminarian because “he might have woken up from the wrong side of the bed.”

       We are called to make the most out of what we have today, to do what we need to do today, and not wait for something better tomorrow. Tomorrow will have its own challenges and we have to face them as they come. We have today to face — head on, right now.

       Imagine Jesus, delaying His favors for us: someone better will ask for favors after ours or there would be more important things He would need to do before listening to our prayers. What a long queue of people that would be and we may never have the chance to be heard! (Remember the movie Bruce Almighty and how Bruce discovered the stressful life of God who would hear countless prayers every second, every minute? Tough indeed!)

       But the Lord does not delay His goodness. He might not grant our petitions now but He definitely will, in His own time. In the same light, we are also called not to delay and not to wait for signs before we act, because no sign will be given, according to today’s Gospel.

       We need to send the word out to the direction we want to go. We cannot achieve what we want if we say today that we cannot do it. You become who you say you are. And our disposition today — with what we have, wherever we are, with whom we are with — should give us a glimpse of who we are going to be tomorrow. Fr. Erick Y. Santos, OFS

 

REFLECTION QUESTION: Do you wait for signs before you act?

 

Lord Jesus, You are the sign and there is no other.