Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – 11th August 2024
Sometimes we find ourselves at the end of our strength and feel that we cannot go on. Sometimes, instead of asking the Lord for strength to go on, we ask the Lord to end our lives. This is not any attempt at suicide, just a plea to the Lord to end the situation that we are experiencing because it seems impossible. Maybe it is impossible from a human point of view.
The First Book of Kings tells us about Elisha coming to this point – and at that very point, God intervenes in the life of Elisha. Elisha cries out to God and God hears him. So often in our human lives we keep trying to solve our problems and fix our problems and do everything by ourselves, and we don’t cry out to the Lord. We don’t even have to wait until we are at the end of our strength. The time to cry out to the Lord is always right now.