God's Awareness of the Good we Do

In today’s first reading, Hebrews 6: 10-20, St. Paul says to us: “God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love you have demonstrated for his name by having served and continuing to serve the holy ones.”  What a statement!  “God is not unjust.” He notices, is aware of,  the work everyone does in serving and continuing to serve others! He notices plumbers, electricians, garbage collectors, chefs, domestic workers, unit clerks, nurses, doctors, teachers, teacher aides, bank tellers, parents, grandparents, baby sitters and on and on and on.  Then note, too, what St. Paul says: God does not “overlook…the love you have demonstrated for his name by serving” others.  We all need to be noticed and appreciated. It is an innate human need. And God does not disappoint!

We are told by Paul in his letter to the Ephesians 2: 10 that “[w]e are God’s work of art, created in Christ Jesus to live the good life as from the beginning he had meant us to live it.”  In doing good, we are cooperating with who we are in our very essence: servants of God doing the good on earth that we are intended to accomplish for the glory of God’s name.  Wow! May you and I serve with grateful hearts and appreciate the service of others.