In today’s first reading,
2 Cor 9: 6-11, we are reminded that “God is able to make every grace abundant”
for us, “so that in all things, always having all” we need, we “may have an
abundance for every good work.” Wow!
What if we lived off that belief every day. What a difference that would make.
Doubts would be diminished. We would “attack” the day with vim and vigor. We
would believe in God’s power overpowering our doubts, our weaknesses, our
lethargy, our cynicism, our pessimism or whatever else holds us back from
accomplishing the good that we are called to be instrumental in bringing about
in our families, our communities, our employment situation, our parishes. And what if we truly believed that every one
of our needs will be met every day, this day! How
differently we would approach a given situation. The fretting and anxiety would
also be diminished because of this belief. Yes, God provides, beyond any doubt
and over and above any limitation that we believe will thwart our abilities to
come through, even in a difficult environment.
St. Paul goes on to say
to us: “The one who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply
and multiply your seed and increase the harvest of your righteousness.” And furthermore,
he says: “You are being enriched in every way for all generosity, which through
us produces thanksgiving to God.”
Tonight it behooves us to
reflect on how God supplied “the seed”, multiplied that seed and increased “the
harvest” of our righteousness, that is our virtue, our uprightness, our
honesty, our justice. It also behooves us to reflect on how God
enriched us today because of our generosity. Or have we fallen short today because we were
not generous, not honest, not upright in some way. If so, then our evening prayer needs to include an “I’m sorry, God; I
let you down today. Help me turn that around tomorrow when you give me another
chance to right the wrongs I committed by my lack of generosity and my
unbelief."
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