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The Lord Is My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul by Fr. Nicanor F. Lalog II Thursday in the Twenty-Second Week of Ordinary Time, Year I, 07 September 2023 Colossians 1:9-14 ><))))*> + ><))))*> + ><))))*> Luke 5:1-11
God our loving Father, I have been praying for many things from you for myself and friends but today, I imitate the prayers of St. Paul for the Colossians:
…that you may be filled with the knowledge of God’s will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord…
Colossians 1:9-10
This is what we should first pray for daily, to be filled with knowledge of your will, O God: we do not have to be all-knowing like you but be open to discern your will, to follow and do what you ask us without doubts or apprehensions like when Simon Peter obeyed Jesus Christ's order to cast their nets into the deep despite their not catching anything at all the previous night; forgive us, Father, for many times we feel and so believe that we know so much, the we know better that anyone, including you.
Fill us with knowledge of your will, O God, so we may have the spiritual wisdom and understanding to see our sinfulness before you, just like Simon Peter after that miraculous catch of fish when he fell at the knees of Jesus, saying, "Depart from me, O Lord, for I am a sinful man" (Lk.5:8). Fill us with knowledge of your will, O God, so we may seek meaning and fulfillment, not just material things and pleasures we can totally abandon to follow Jesus catching men and women for him "to be delivered from the power of darkness" to have redemption. Amen.
