Please read this passage before reading the homily.
“Don’t reject the corrections the Lord gives and be not discouraged when the Lord reproaches you.”
One of my friends had Covid-19. I could not tell him why the Lord allowed this.
If a person wants to become a councilor, the person needs to know how to council correctly.
If a person wants to be a welder, the person has to learn how to weld the right way.
If somebody want to run like a good athlete, the person has to learn the proper techniques.
If a person wants to be a doctor the person has to learn correctly the art of medicine.
Practicing to become better is hard. All practice to improve oneself is painful, but the facility gained is the hoped-for result.
Discipline is the act of correcting somebody so that the one correctly gets better. Parents correct their children so that they grow to be good adults. Coaches put their athletes into strenuous training so they can play well in their competitions. Those who train doctors put them through the rigorous training period called residency, a necessary and hard exercise to produce better doctors.
It is certain that no correction brings happiness at the moment, but only grief. Only afterwards does it bear good fruit.
The Lord is our champion in the fight. He has gone before us so that we can run and make it to the Father’s throne of glory.
Therefore, let us strengthen our weary hands and our unsteady knees, and run joyfully to reach the glory of the Father.