https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/012421.cfm
I quote:
Teach me your ways, O Lord.
Your ways, O LORD, make known to me;
teach me your paths,
Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my savior.
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This morning I was asked how one should differentiate between what God calls us to do, and our own plans.
By coincidence I was speaking by telephone with my good friend, and retired clinical psychologist Jose on Wednesday last reminiscing over his life saving experience when he chose to embrace, and act on an overwhelming influence from within his conscious understanding to not fly back to his home city of Bilbao, instead taking an over night train from Madrid. Jose's decision to change his plans despite following the same routine once a month for some twenty years saved his life.
Intuitive inspiration is often ignored for fear of appearing irrational when our senses detect nothing abnormal. Some argue that ones innermost guidance provides each of us with all the rational guidance that we will ever need to shepherd us safely through our life's journey of self discovery.
Hearing, listening and doing are the steps we take when being inspired to follow the call of Our Saviour to follow His advice in all matters without exception.
“[To have Faith in Christ] means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice. Thus if you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way. Not doing these things in order to be saved, but because He has begun to save you already. Not hoping to get to Heaven as a reward for your actions, but inevitably wanting to act in a certain way because a first faint gleam of Heaven is already inside you.”― C.S. Lewis
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