ASK YOURSELF: HOW MUCH DOES GOD TRUST ME? CAN GOD TRUST ME MORE TODAY THAN LAST YEAR?

DO I TRUST GOD MORE TODAY THAN I DID A YEAR AGO?

If any of us had a trustworthy business owner who hired us because he sensed that we had the capacity and work ethic to move his company from being a good company to being an outstandingly great company, how would he feel, if either or both of us were not attentive to the tasks he gave us? Would he ignore our waste of his trust in us? How would he feel seeing all that he put into creating this company being destroyed by our inattentiveness? How could we have done this to him?

Is not God like that trustworthy business owner? God gifted us with Scripture, with a perfect role model, Jesus, and with so many gifts and so much potential. But we have to choose and do something with them, if we want to grow into whatever uniquely outstanding person we, with the help of God’s grace, can enable ourselves to become. We have to observe and work with the gifts God is providing. One of the best of these is Scripture. How attentive are we:

to making the Scriptures and of our study of Jesus “a reproof, a correction, an instruction in righteousness”, so that we, God’s people, may be “complete” and “thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

And when we do this, consciously, consistently, day in and day out, year after year, acknowledge and respond enthusiastically to God’s presence and God’s graces, we begin to see everything differently, because we are conscious of our connectedness with the only One who can bring true meaning to each of us. How often do you let yourself meet with God and listen to what God is trying reveal to you? How often do you encourage others to do that?

When we come to Mass this weekend, let us be willing to receive Jesus into our hearts and promise to make a return to Him and to the Father for all the good God has done for us. Let us promise Jesus that we will strive harder than ever to follow him – to “be competent for every good work.”  Let’s up our game. And let us hope and pray that the work of the Spirit in and among us will better “equip us for every good work.”

S. Loretta

“As for you, Solomon, my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and a willing soul, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands all the mind’s thoughts. If you search for him, he will be found; but if you abandon him, . . .” 1 Chronicles 28:9