Colossians 2:6-15 / Luke 6:12-19
One of the fundamental and essential aspects of Christian spirituality is prayer.
Prayer is so necessary and crucial for our Christian way of life and for making Christian directions in life.
Because prayer is the expression of our relationship with God.
And prayer also forms our hearts to have that spiritual sensitivity to the promptings of the Holy Spirit.
In the gospel, Jesus went out into the hills to pray, and He spent the whole night in prayer.
When morning came, He summoned His disciples and chose His twelve apostles.
Jesus chose His apostles not merely by rational and logical judgement, He also brought it before God in prayer to discern His choices.
In the 1st reading, St. Paul warns about being led astray by some secondhand, empty, rational philosophy based on the principles of this world instead of on Christ.
Because the ways of God are different from the ways of the world, and the thoughts of God are also not the thoughts of the world.
So in whatever we are discussing or deciding, let us bring it before the Lord.
Let us listen to the voice of the Lord in the Scriptures so that we can be led by the Holy Spirit to know what the will of God is and to fulfil it.