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Follow Where God Leads
3 min
Gospel
Mt 8:5-11
As he entered Caper′na-um, a centurion came forward to him, beseeching him and saying, “Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, in terrible distress.” And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.” But the centurion answered him, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be healed. For I am a man under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” When Jesus heard him, he marveled, and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I say to you, not even in Israel have I found such faith. I tell you, many will come from east and west and sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
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Transcript
Follow Where God Leads
What jumps out at you
today?
The phrase that jumped out at me is the centurion says to
Jesus, "I am a man under authority." And then he explains, "And I have men under my
authority, and I say do this, and they do it, and I say, come here and they come here.
And I say, go there and they go there." And so the centurion explains this concept of
authority. But first, he acknowledges, he recognizes, he confesses that he himself is a
man under authority. And I am a man under authority. You are a man or a woman under
authority. But do we think of ourselves that way? I think not, very
often.
I think very often in our society, we're taught to think of
ourselves as deciding everything, self-determining everything. And it's easy to forget
in all of that that we are under authority, that we are answerable to a great king. Only
then do we start to listen to his voice so that when he says, "Come here," we come. And
when he says, "Go there," we go. And when he says, "Do this," we do it. Let's try to
listen to that voice in a new way today, and to follow where he leads us. Have a great
day, and remember, Be Bold, Be Catholic.
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