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Psalm Reflection: The Third Sunday of Ordinary Time (Cycle B)

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Psalm Reflection: The Third Sunday of Ordinary Time (Cycle B)

“Teach me your ways, O Lord.” - Psalm 25

We are arguably the most self-aware generation in history. We have a myriad of seminars, personality tests and assessments to help us be more aware of areas where we can grow and communicate better. Our culture is obsessed with the self. 

Self-awareness.

Self-improvement.

Self-glorification.

Self.

Self.

Self.

We learn and obsess all about our own ways, but do we bother to have that same hunger for awareness, improvement and glorification when it comes to God?

Are we aware of how God is speaking to us by praying daily?

Are we improving our understanding of what God has already said by being immersed in His word?

Are we glorifying Him in our lives and on social media or are we consumed more by our own opinions, pithy comebacks, and witty retorts?

God Himself has already told us through the prophet Isaiah: “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways—oracle of the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, my thoughts higher than your thoughts.” - Isaiah 55:8-9

Will we listen? We cannot pretend to praise and glorify Him if we always color that praise with our own ideas, opinions and interpretations, as if we need to make God more relevant by adding our ways onto His. He does not need us.

However, God wants us. He simply wants to love us, and when we truly love someone we obsess over them: we want to learn everything about them. Do we have that kind of obsessive love and passion for the Lord, one that makes us cry out, “Teach me your ways, O Lord!”? I hope I do.

This week, learn something new about your faith. Dive into a passage or book of Scripture that you are unfamiliar with or have never read. Read through parts of the Catechism or look up a topic in the index to explore. Find a spiritual book to deepen your relationship with God and your understanding of His ways. Fall more deeply in love with God, who loves you beyond our ability to define or express.

I am praying for you, please pray for me, and I will see you in the Eucharist.

Matt

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