Facing Division
"Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters." (Luke 11:23)
"Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters." (Luke 11:23)
House against house; family against family; we’ve seen [and may have personally been affected by] division in our lives.
Those who don’t fully know us, those who don’t understand where we are in our faith life, our journey, our job here on earth, may very well cause others to turn away, perhaps call you names [ie: holy roller].
“But if it is by the finger of God that [I] drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.” {Luke 11:20}
It’s hurtful and disappointing when those we care about and care for turn their backs on us. And our natural human instinct is to perhaps want to hurt back. But we must turn our cheeks, and dust ourselves off because our greatest example, the one we must be living our best life for, is Jesus.
It’s in those moments, when the finger of God is touching you. He’s molding you, shaping you, and holding you during every trial and every division we stumble across.
Jesus promises rewards that we can’t even fathom. Our brains cannot even begin to know how extravagant our place in Heaven will be. Washed clean and forever glorifying and praising His name.
When you face division, do you offer it up to God?
Father in Heaven, when we face division, allow your finger to come upon us and to feel your presence and your love. Amen.
Judi Prinzivalli is a native New Yorker and has been a Tampa Bay resident since 1999. Judi attends Resurrection Catholic Church in Riverview, FL where she proudly serves as a member of the Parish Council, is a Lector, a Eucharistic Minister, and participates in the Sick and Homebound Ministry. Judi and her husband Landy Colón are graduates of the Lay Pastoral Ministry Institute program (www.dosp.org/lpmi). They have two married daughters who live out of state, and are caretakers of Judi’s mom, who lives close by. She is a small-business owner (www.adjudicake.com) where she proudly helps her customers celebrate, solve or settle all the little things in life .. with cake!”