Homily of the Day

Does God Ever Forget You?

January 13th, 2009 by Monsignor Dennis Clark, Ph.D. Print This Article Print This Article ·

Heb 2:5-12 / Mk 1:21-28

That feeling can hit us all.  The feeling of being forgotten, abandoned. Sometimes it strikes the elderly who are ready to go home to the Lord, and are waiting for the call that doesn’t come and doesn’t come.  Sometimes it strikes people whose troubles just keep multiplying through no fault of their own.  And too often it strikes all of us, as problems linger indefinitely with no resolution in sight.

When we get that lost and forgotten feeling, it’s time to remember what Jesus told us so often, namely, that God never forgets anyone, and that not a single flower dies and not a single sparrow ever falls from the sky without God’s knowing it. God doesn’t forget us, He simply has a different timetable and a different plan. And that means that we have to learn how to wait. But more than just wait. We have to wait with trusting and hopeful hearts. If we can do that, whatever comes and whenever it comes, it will have purpose and work for the good.  That is God’s promise.

 



  • Guest

    Yes, sometimes though, we are almost crushed to the ground by our burdens that we almost feel like Dives who asked Lazarus to dip his finger on water and touch his (Dives’) tongue for some little refreshment. We reach a point where we ask God for some moratorium on the relentless attack or ever-increasing burdens — almost fearing that we are about to break. We pray for strength. We pray, “Incline unto my aid, O God! Lord, make haste to help me.” (Psalm 70:1)

  • Guest

    Ray F., the very prayer of the hermits!

    Speaking of the Lord’s help . . .

    I am currently reading – along with a couple of other books commenting on the CCC – The Art of Dying Well (or, How to be a Saint, Now and Forever), by Saint Robert Bellarmine. (I confess it is a book I ordered of a few to help keep Sophia Institute Press afloat.)

    It seems to be of a somewhat unique genre by which he uses Scripture to refer to a powerful program for living well – which is the secret to dying well.

    I have to read each chapter twice – then, I’m going to re-read the whole book, again. It is quite easy to read, but accumulates his program so well as to cause you to want to make sure you missed nothing. It is, thankfully, footnoted on-the-page.

    I bring it up here because Saint Robert Bellarmine presents our God so caring, as His revelation shows, that He has given a delightful, if comprehensively potent, program for working with Him, for our sainthood and His pleasure, and to His glory. He includes all the expectable information, but ties it and Scripture so well together, working on it will surely help keep any thoughts of being ‘forgotten’ out.

    Only a caring and constant God could make such exquisite provision for mapping out sainthood.

    Through Christ, with Christ, in Christ,

    Pristinus Sapienter

    (wljewell @newcesite.com or … yahoo.com)