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Daily Gospel Reflections | Holy Week | Spy Wednesday
Reflect on trusting God's timing and avoiding impulsive actions through the story of Judas' betrayal in this Daily Gospel Reflection for Wednesday of Holy Week. Today's Gospel: Matthew 26:14-25 Our actions are never hidden from God. We can try to justify our actions, we can pretend that we know better or that God somehow needs our help to bring His plans to fruition, but these are all lies we tell ourselves. God knows what is best, and He knows us better than we know ourselves. We can’t know what was going on in Judas’s heart when he sold the Lord for thirty silver pieces. Perhaps he was greedy, but it is commonly believed that he was doing what he thought was the right and just thing to do. Many were anticipating a political Messiah who would battle their oppressors, and perhaps Judas thought this exchange would be just the spark needed to ignite the battle. Regardless of his motives, we know that Jesus was aware of the betrayal by the time of the Last Supper, and that once it was complete, Judas regretted his actions. How often do we step in and take action impatiently because we think God needs our help? How often do we take matters into our own hands when we don’t like the direction God is leading us? And then, how often are we later burdened with regret for those foolish actions?
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Daily Gospel Reflections | Scripture | family prayer | power of prayer
In many ways, learning to listen for God’s voice is like trying to get a good phone signal. Again and again, God reaches out to us asking patiently, “Can you hear me now?” Our response might be a robust “Yes, Lord! Your servant is listening.” Or there may be no response at all because we’ve become deaf to His voice. But no matter our response, God doesn’t give up. He continues asking us, “Can you hear me now?”
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