In today’s first reading, 2 Tim1: 1-3, 6-12, we are
challenged to “fan into a flame the gift of God that…[we] possess through the
laying on of…[the bishop’s] hands” when we were confirmed. God, St. Timothy tells us, “did not give us a
spirit of timidity but the Spirit of power and love and self-control.” Over and
above these gifts, God has saved us and called us to be holy—not because of
anything we ourselves had done but for his own purpose and by his own grace.”
Each one of us possesses “the gift of God.” We possess it,
that is, it is ours. But it is not ours for our own sake. It is “for God’s own
purpose and by his own grace.” The “gift
of God” that has been given us is “the Spirit of power and love and
self-control,” which, by the grace of God, we are empowered to fulfill the
purpose for which God put us here on earth, placed us in the family that is
ours and in that part of the world where a purpose of God is not yet achieved
and will not be achieved unless you and I carry it out according to God’s plan
and “by the grace” of God because it has been given to us to accomplish!
That is mind-bottling!
I am not here for myself. Never was! And the purpose for which I am here
is God’s purpose. I am God’s idea, so
to speak. I am who I am, I am where I am, for God’s reason, God’s intention.
God has a g in mind to achieve and that
goal will only be achieved if I co-operate with Go in accomplishing it. That is true of every day of my life: one day
at a time. May I, through the grace of
God, fulfill the purpose for which God has given me this day. May I accomplish the objective that God needs
fulfilled today through me. If I do not achieve the objective that is God’s
for me today, it will remain unfulfilled. He has given that objective of His to
no one else but me.
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