Our first reading today comes from Book of Jonah, which I have always found to be such a fascinating story and very relatable.
At some point in our lives, God will ask us to do something for Him, but like Jonah, many times we aren’t particularly thrilled with our assignment.
Often, we have *our* idea of what we’d like to do for God, but He doesn’t necessarily see things our way.
What usually happens is, like Jonah, we try to run from our mission, our vocation, or our task. We all know the story of Jonah. His flight from his assignment lands him in the belly of a whale, which seems a bit far fetched, but I think it shows something very, very significant.
When you ignore God’s mission for your life or when you try to hide from it, you forfeit growth. You become trapped and stagnant in all aspects of your life, because whatever God was asking you to do was the next step in becoming who He created you to be.
When you thwart that, you might as well be trapped inside a whale surrounded in darkness, living a bleak existence.
God isn’t always going to ask you to do something you feel completely thrilled about, Catholic Pilgrims. Obedience may be a dirty word in our culture, but it is what we are called to do in our spiritual life.
Christ on the Cross shows us that obedience to God isn’t always pretty, but it is transformative and a true act of love.
Have a blessed Sunday.
