The gospel passage today tells us to be as clever trying to secure our eternal salvation as we are clever in solving our earthly dilemmas and difficulties.
If we can manipulate our material concerns in both legitimate and illegitimate ways, we can cooperate in our eternal redemption - in a pure and holy way!
In the first reading to the Romans, St. Paul speaks of his priestly duty to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus - always to new communities - so that the Word of God can be brought to the ends of the earth! He does not want to preach to those who already have been introduced to Christ. He says if there is any boasting to be done in the process of proclamation and reception of the message: the boasting is in God who initiates both processes: the proclamation; and the reception.
It is God’s power that fills the proclaimer, it is his power that is in the message, it is his power that awakens the hearer to be receptive, and it is his power that accomplishes the understanding of what was proclaimed.
If it is true that the Lord has revealed to the nations his saving power, then it is also true that we, nourished by the Word and Eucharist of the Mass,ought to agree to cooperate in God’s will and plan - and give ourselves to him today as completely as we can - so that he can use us as he wills!
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