If the miracles I did for you...!

FOR THE LAST FEW DAYS I HAVE HAD PROBLEMS WITH MY EMAIL SERVICE. SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCES!

Luke 10:13-16

Jesus said to his disciples: What horrors await you, you cities of Chorazin and Bethsaida! For if the miracles I did for you had been done in the cities of Tyre and Sidon, their people would have sat in deep repentance long ago, clothed in sackcloth and throwing ashes on their heads to show their remorse. Yes, Tyre and Sidon will receive less punishment on the Judgment Day than you. And you people of Capernaum, what shall I say about you? Will you be exalted to heaven? No, you shall be brought down to hell.”

Then he said to the disciples, “Those who welcome you are welcoming me. And those who reject you are rejecting me. And those who reject me are rejecting God who sent me.”

Food for thought!

This gospel reminds us that to have heard God's favors (talents, gifts, Word, etc) is both a great privilege and great responsibility. Everyone will be judged according to what they had the chance to know; the little or the more we know is always enough to either save us or condemn us. We allow things in a child we condemn in an adult; we forgive things in a mad person we punish in a normal man. Responsibility is the other side of privilege. And privilege is the other side of responsibility. Whatever we have been given in this life, both spiritual and material, is both a gift and a task.

In other words, God has equipped each one of us for a special task; we are custom-built for something. We are what we are, we are where we are for a purpose. If someone else had been given half the chances and opportunities given us, they'd have been on their knees long ago, repenting and crying for mercy.

Let us be grateful for all life has given us, like work, family, health, wealth, etc.

You can go around complaining about fate, your parents, your pocketbook, and the faults and frailties of others. Or, you can change yourself. As you become a good steward of the abundance that is yours right now, an increasing attitude of gratitude will bring greater blessings to you and, then through you, to our world.

Count your blessings and you will have an attitude of gratitude — John M. Templeton. Counting our blessings can transform melancholy into cheerfulness. Actively acknowledging our good creates more good. When we are grateful for the blessings we already have, our very gratitude attracts extra good to us. 

Gratitude can be a powerful magnet that draws to us friends, love, peace, health, and material good. Those who are grateful experience the wonderful balance of being both givers and receivers. Gratitude nurtures within us a positive, joy-filled consciousness and unifies us with life’s flow, which gives birth to inner fulfillment.