Do Not Worry
[at Beer-sheba] God, speaking to Israel in a vision by night,
called, "Jacob! Jacob!" He answered, "Here I am." Then he
said: "I am God, the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to
Egypt, for there I will make you a great nation. Not only will I go down to
Egypt with you; I will also bring you back here after Joseph has closed your
eyes." Genesis 46:1-4
Jesus said to his Apostles: "Behold, I am sending you like
sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves. But
beware of men, for they will hand you over to courts and scourge you in their
synagogues, and you will be led before governors and kings for my sake as a
witness before them and the pagans. When they hand you over, do not worry about
how you are to speak or what you are to say. You will be given at that moment
what you are to say. Matthew
10:16-19
Piety
Study
Today, we meet up with more Hebrews on the move. Jacob and his family are on their way to settle
in Egypt and head to a reunion with Joseph.
God calls him from his present state to go out of the comforts of his
home into the unknown.
Jesus continues to treat his followers as a Church in Exodus, sending
out his disciples to be his witnesses in the world. Jesus reminds them what the earlier Hebrews
knew all too well…that they would not be treated well by the world and the
temporal leaders.
Action
I took one of those stress tests where
they ask you a bunch of questions and then tell you a score of how much stress
you have in life. Changing jobs and
relocation are among the highest stress producers in life. In both our readings today, we encounter
situations where disciples are told to undergo such emotional stress and they
willingly take it on.
Where is God sending you today?
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