Thursday of week 22 in Ordinary Time
First reading – Colossians 1:9-14.
“what we ask God is that through perfect wisdom and spiritual understanding you should reach the fullest knowledge of his will”. Are we asking this for others? Many times, we ask lot of other things for others. The intentions for others are often material things. But here we see St. Paul is praying for the Colossians that they through perfect wisdom and spiritual understanding should reach the fullest knowledge of the will of God. He also explains why he pray for this intention. It is because the Colossians through the fullest knowledge of the will of God can lead the kind of life which the Lord expects of them and that they have the to bear anything joyfully. St. Paul is asking this because what God has done for us. “He has taken us out of the power of darkness and created a place for us in the kingdom of the Son that he loves, and in him, we gain our freedom, the forgiveness of our sins”. We gain our freedom and the forgiveness of our sins. What else we need. Let’s reflect: Are we praying for others that they reach the fullest know of the will of God through perfect wisdom and spiritual understanding or that they have material things?
Thursday 7 September
