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All of us have a vocation, a call from God. For Christians, our primary vocation is to be a follower of Jesus Christ. In today’s Gospel selection from St. Luke, we catch a glimpse of what that can mean. Specifically, we read:
“As they were proceeding on their journey, someone said to him, ‘I will follow you wherever you go.’ Jesus answered him, ‘Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head.’
And to another he said, ‘Follow me.’ But he replied, ‘Lord, let me go first and bury my father.’ But he answered him, ‘Let the dead bury their dead. But you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.’ And another said, ‘I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say farewell to my family at home.’ To him Jesus said, ‘No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the kingdom of God’” (Luke 9: 57-62).
Jesus’ responses in no way would fall into the “warm, fuzzy” category. Rather, they point to the fact that to be a follower of Jesus, we have to be ready to meet hard challenges. Fortunately, as Catholic Christians, we believe that God will give us the sufficient graces needed to meet these challenges.
