Can anything good come from Daxx?

The next day he decided to go to Galilee, and he found Philip. And Jesus said to him, "Follow me." Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the town of Andrew and Peter.

Philip found Nathanael and told him, "We have found the one about whom Moses wrote in the law, and also the prophets, Jesus, son of Joseph, from Nazareth." But Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

John 1: 43-46

I was attending Mass when this Gospel was read. As I listen to the priest read "Can anything good come from Nazareth? I reflected on these words. Then I changed it to make it personal, “Can anything good come from Daxx?” I have heard this from other people. When I started volunteering in the orphanage some of my friends asked if there were “babes” there? They though I was there to scout out women. They were puzzled why give my time to the orphanage. When I started giving talks and retreats, some people got nervous because I had no training or formation (they did not know i watch EWTN everyday). “Can anything good come from Daxx?” But the people around me are not the one who often asks this question. The one who always ask “Can anything good come from Daxx?” is me. I guess I am like many people who have doubts with themselves. Am I really capable of doing this? I am a little bit crazy thinking I can pull it of? Am I being presumptuous? This are the question that goes in my mind every time I try to do something for God that is beyond my capacity. But God somehow reminds me that He is the one doing all the work. I am just an unprofitable servant doing his Master’s bidding. Jesus somehow says to me, “Come follow me and see.” The last 3 years of trying to follow Christ was the craziest and painful years of my life, yet it was the most meaningful and productive years I have lived yet. I imagine Jesus saying to me what he said to John, “Come and See” I Jesus is saying this to all of us, “Come” Come with me and follow me, make me the absolute center of your life. And then he will say “See” See how I will make beautiful and even extraordinary things in your life. Personally I have to say my “Yes” everyday to Jesus invitation daily to “Come and See.”

Practical Application: We need to make time for prayer where we will hear God’s invitation to us to follow Him, “Come”. Then we need to have faith more on God’s love and grace than our own weakness. Sinners as we are, full of weakness, God still has the power to make our lives “good” and beautiful. “Come and See” Jesus in prayer, for us Catholics, Jesus is there in the Most Holy Eucharist in the tabernacle.

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