Feast of St. Lucy, Virgin & Martyr
Isaiah tells us today that our God is strong if we are weak, and in fact, He makes us strong when we are weak. This is essential to remember. Why? Because sometimes we like to cling to our problems.
This must sound crazy. Why would anyone want to stay in pain, sin, or resentment? However, over and over again we can find ourselves in this way. Why? Because it gives me a kind of identity. It is the devil I know. Or perhaps it appears to give me some control over a situation – like nursing a grudge over someone who hurt me and seems to be doing just fine.
I have to ask myself a frank question: Do I really want God to heal me? Maybe I prefer the sin or am scared to be something new – even if it means being free of a habitual vice. Maybe even I do not believe that the Lord Jesus can heal me.
If any of this be the case, with renewed trust, “lift up your eyes on high.” “Why, do you say.., ‘My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by God’?” Even if you should – and will – become weak, “He does not faint nor grow weary… He gives strength to the fainting.”
Reflection by Fr. Pachomius Meade, OSB
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