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"What if I want him to remain until I come?
What concern is it of yours?
You follow me."
It's the last weekday of Easter.
After giving instructions to Peter about his role in the Church, Peter asks the Lord about John and the Lord tells him "what concern is it of yours? You follow me."
Each one of us is given a specific role to fulfill and the important thing to do is to accomplish our respective roles. We do not have to bother ourselves about the roles that others have to fulfill unless their roles and ours would at some point meet and coordination is necessary - which God would surely show.
Sometimes being concerned about others distract us from our own roles to fulfill. Many times when we fail in accomplishing our particular roles we make it an excuse that our role is not as important, or not as easy, or not as challenging, or whatever excuse we can make out, than someone else's.
But the Lord himself makes it clear to Peter, what if I want him to remain until I come? What if one is called to become a priest and even a Bishop or the Pope and we remain ordinary lay people who have not been given even enough capability to proclaim the Word of God? Maybe we are called to fulfill our Christian vocation in the ordinary and simple events of life in the world! Most of us may not have been called to become religious but it doesn't mean we are not called to live in holiness in the respective milieu of life where we are.
Important thing is that we follow the Lord and not someone else. We follow the Lord even if we think someone else got a better role to fulfill. We follow the Lord because we believe that what He commissions us to fulfill is what's the best for us for He knows everything. We follow the Lord because through this we can fully and truly fulfill His command to love and to love one another!
Follow me, He tells each of us. Let us follow the Lord, let us love one another so that the world may believe that He has sent us!
A BLESSED PENTECOST DAY TO ALL!
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