Sunday, October 13, 2019
Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year C
Read about the canonization of Saint John Henry Newman
“Bukankah kesepuluh orang tadi telah menjadi tahir? Di manakah yang sembilan orang itu? Tidak adakah di antara mereka yang kembali untuk memuliakan Allah selain orang asing ini?” Lukas 17:17-18
Kata-kata ini diucapkan Yesus setelah Ia menyembuhkan sepuluh orang yang menderita kusta, tetapi hanya satu dari mereka, seorang asing, yang kembali kepada Yesus untuk berterima kasih kepada-Nya. Sepuluh orang disembuhkan secara jasmani dari penyakit kusta mereka, tetapi hanya satu yang menerima penyembuhan yang jauh lebih mendalam. Ketika orang itu kembali kepada Yesus dengan hati yang penuh syukur, Yesus berkata kepadanya, “Berdirilah dan pergilah, imanmu telah menyelamatkan engkau” (Lukas 17:19).
Only this one leper, the one who returned with a grateful heart, heard our Lord speak these words: “Your faith has saved you.” This reveals that gratitude to God is not only our duty, it also brings forth manifest blessings in our lives. When we sincerely offer thanks to God for all that He has done, we are manifesting great faith in God as a result. We are pointing to Him and His goodness as the source of our blessings and it takes faith to see this and to profess it.
What is it for which you need to grow in gratitude in your life? What is it that you may take for granted and have failed to properly return to God and thank Him for? The truth is that everything in life is a gift. Everything. Even the struggles you endure can be turned into blessings. In fact, that’s exactly what happened in this story. The awful suffering of leprosy was turned into a grace from God.
Renungkanlah hari ini segala yang telah Allah lakukan bagi Anda. Berdoalah agar Anda memahami berbagai cara yang tak terhitung banyaknya yang digunakan Allah untuk melimpahkan rahmat dalam hidup Anda. Ketika Anda melihatnya, renungkanlah berkat-berkat itu, hitunglah, dan syukurilah. Lalu, dengan rasa syukur itu, kembalilah kepada Allah untuk mengucapkan syukur dengan penuh sukacita. Dalam tindakan itu, iman Anda pun akan menyelamatkan Anda.
Lord, I do thank You for the countless blessings that You have bestowed upon me throughout my life. I thank You for the ways in which You have graced me, led me and healed me. Help me to see clearly all that You have done and continue to do for me. As I see these blessings, help me to daily express my gratitude in faith. Jesus, I trust in You.
Read about the canonization of Saint John Henry Newman
