+ The gospel passage today sets an important precedent: God is
very pleased when we trust him absolutely and give until it hurts, give even
our last penny to his service. God takes care of his own, his children, and
when he sees them with so much love and trust, he immediately and directly sees
to their needs. We say in the prayer that Jesus taught us: give us this day our
daily bread: this is exactly what it means: we also say with the psalmist: “The
Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want” – indeed I shall not want for anything
that is essential to my life on this sojourn to heaven.
The only real evaluation of
the situation that we can make on the natural level is to use of frail and
broken reasoning: and hoping against hope, holding our breath, drop the last of
our earthly fortune into the hands of the Church – but if we could look at it
from God the Father perspective, he can see that his trusting beloved one is
not hoping against hope at all: but rather hoping with all her/his might so
that we can soon sing our Father’s praises for taking care of us once again.
May we pray today for such
childlike abandon and confidence, so that once we give away what we think will
be our last gifts – like the multiplication of loaves and fishes – God will see
to it that we have more than enough for our own true needs as he see them, and
the needs of others, as he sees them.
They
shall receive blessings from the Lord, those who seek his face, and love him
with all their hearts!
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