What did I say Yes too?

When I joined FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) as a missionary, I thought I had an idea of what my ministry on college campuses would entail.  I thought I would be in investing in Catholic leaders, teaching them how to share their faith as I was taught.  However, my first night of training, I was told of a more radical call to my job.  I was going to be leading the charge as a missionary talking to strangers about the faith on college campuses!  My job would ask me consistently to leave the comfort of my ego and pride, and put myself in a place of constant rejection and ridicule.   After hearing this on my first night of training, I could only ask the question, “What did I get myself into?”

In our Gospel today, the Lord not only explains the cost of discipleships, which is everything, but then asks his disciples, “Do you understand all these things?”  Their response is quite naïve, “Yes!”  It is clear in the Scriptures, the Apostles did not know what they signed up for, especially when it came to Christ dying on the cross.  Yet, in the end, all but one would be killed for their faith in Jesus Christ!

The Lord is asking us to follow him!  Deep in our hearts we want to say yes!  And we don’t know what that yes will entail, but the great news revealed in the Scripture: God doesn’t call the equipped, He equips the called!  The Lord gave the Apostles the grace to follow Him even to their martyrdom!  The Lord gave me the grace to be His missionary and now His priest.  The Lord will give you His grace to follow him, you just need to say yes, and see the Lord do amazing things!