Co-workers, co-healers with Jesus

The Gospel of today, Luke 4: 38-44, relates the healing of Peter’s mother-in-law.  The apostles brought her plight to the attention of Jesus. “He stood over her, rebuked the fever, and it left her.”  At sunset, the people of the village brought “the sick with various kinds of diseases to him. He laid his hands on each of them and cured them. And demons also came out from many…” The power of intercessory prayer!  For whom do you want to intercede with the Lord?

I brought the following to Jesus’ attention: the sick world/our nation/our country in which we live and all of its inhabitants. I asked Jesus also to intercede for those determined to remove God’s name from our consciousness.  As I reflected upon the disciple’s cooperation with Jesus,  today’s first reading,1 Cor 3: 1-9, came to mine. Paul tells us that “we are God’s co-workers.”  Those reflections left me with  the question: Who in their right mind would not want God as a co-worker? Who would not want God, the creator of heaven and earth, the Creative Intelligence behind all that is, on their team?  Are we crazy or what!