Third Wednesday of Easter

“For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him may have eternal life, and I shall raise him on the last day.”

Sometimes we forget that our faith lives lead us inevitably to the Resurrection on the last day. What we do today will help determine where we will spend all of eternity. It’s hard to wrap our minds around the concept of eternal life. Our present lives are consuming enough without worrying about what will happen after we pass on to the next life. However, if we want to truly appreciate our faith and live it to the fullest, we need to have a healthy remembrance of what our goal is on earth, namely to prepare ourselves to live eternally with God in heaven. So the next time we get so busy that we think we don’t have time to pray or do some good deed, perhaps we should remember that we don’t know the hour of our death and we should do everything in our power to make time for God and seize those opportunities He gives us to prove that we believe in His Son.

Have we forgotten to pray, do good, or offer up our lives today for God’s glory? What are the worldly things in our lives which keep us from focusing on the heavenly ones? How can we focus even our mundane tasks on God so that we make our lives a living prayer to Him?

O Lord, we believe in your Son and hope you shall raise us up on the last day.

Amen.