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meet your maker (see am 4:12)
“I will make you...” —Matthew 4:19
Are you unsure of yourself? You can’t make yourself into anything, for apart from Jesus, no one can do anything (Jn 15:5). Only Jesus can make anyone change from ungodly self-reliance to unselfish godly reliance.
The Lord is our Maker. He makes us into something new (2 Cor 5:17). “He made us” (Ps 100:3), and He will re-make us, like a potter at the wheel, remolding the clay (Jer 18:6; Is 64:7). He makes us into His instruments, His fishers of men, His laborers. Perhaps this is why St. Andrew is presented in the Gospels as bringing people to Jesus (Jn 1:40-42; 6:8ff; 12:22). Andrew knew that Jesus makes people into what they cannot be apart from Him (see Jn 15:5). Jesus made St. Andrew into a prolific fisher of men (Mt 4:18-19). Andrew brought the first pope to Jesus, his brother Simon, who became St. Peter (Jn 1:40-42).
Don’t listen to the evil one, who constantly lies to us (see Jn 8:44), saying we can’t change. Be like St. Andrew, always bringing people to Jesus to be remade.
Prayer: “Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace.”
Promise: “For if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” —Rm 10:9
Praise: St. Andrew “never stopped teaching and proclaiming the good news of Jesus the Messiah” (Acts 5:42), even when flogged (Acts 5:40) or martyred on a cross.
Reference: (This teaching was submitted by a member of our editorial team.)
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