9. 03rd Ordinary Sunday 2024, January 21: Giving Witness Under God's Watchful Eyes

Often, we want our will to be done. We are also certain that our thinking is perfect and that there are no errors possible in such planning. Due to such thinking, any sort of unexpected thing happening to us is considered bad. Instead of accepting what comes our way and trying our best to do everything possible to bring glory to God, we choose the other way. As a result, we fall into unnecessary desolations, frustrations, unhappiness, anxiety, fear, and disinterestedness in life. When we look at the liturgical readings of this Third Sunday in Ordinary Time, we tend to think that God's ways are marvelous. Man chooses one and God chooses the other. Prophet Jonah is the best example before us. So too, was the life of the early disciples of Jesus, who began to tread unknown paths with Jesus.