Wednesday
May 18, 2016
Instruments of God’s Blessing
Every person around us is a blessing through which the Lord brings in blessings. The world might condemn them for their faults and mistakes but for the Lord they are all very precious ‘instruments’. Instruments He uses to touch our lives.
In the Gospel of St. John Chapter 4 we read about the incident between Jesus and the Samaritan woman. The woman did not live a very good life. She was condemned by those around her. That is why she is forced to come by to the well at noon to carry water - an indication that she was not accepted by the people in the town. As she spoke to Jesus, she got closer to the Lord and understood Him as the Messiah. The word tells us what she does after that. In verse 28 we read, “Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?” They left the city and were on their way to him.”
She was a woman who was condemned as a good for nothing and an embarrassment to that community. But she is the one who becomes an instrument in the hands of the Lord to touch the lives of those people in that town. They condemned her but the Lord used her. This does happen to us as well. The very same people we condemn end up being the ones used by the Lord to bring in blessings into our life. We might think that they are not worthy enough but for Jesus they are precious instruments.
An excerpt from an article entitled “God’s Instruments of Blessing” by Fr. Michael Payyapilly, VC of the Divine Retreat Centre Muringoor, India. Click here to read the whole wonderful article. It can be read in its entirety at
http://www.drcm.org/divine-call-archive/296-gods-instruments-of-blessings
Year of Mercy Calendar for Today: “In order to become an instrument of God’s hands we must be of no account in our own eyes.” ~ St. Angerla Merici