Though the reading of the gospel passage is long, the message is short: when we spend what God gives us on what promotes God's kingdom – we will always have enough to go around for all concerned; when we refuse to spend what God gives us to promote his Kingdom – what little we start out with will be taken away! GOD WANTS US TO BE USEFUL, INDUSTRIOUS and GENEROUS children who look out for the needs of one another!
In the first reading today, St. Paul reminds the Corinthians and us that those who have their priorities straight – and are thinking about the Kingdom of God first – are not the high and the mighty, the worldly wise and the strong – they are rather those whom the world considers foolish, weak, lowly and despised, the count-for-nothings!
God chooses to work through them so that he gets all credit for wonderful deeds done! It is only right – he is God, the author of all of the good works! We get credit
for giving ourselves wholly and entirely for his use; but what we do is always to give him glory, praise and thanks! Whoever boasts, should boast in the Lord.
Let us give ourselves entirely today to God to be his instruments! Let us use the talents he has given us to promote and increase the reality of his kingdom here on earth – so that one day, we can participate fully in it – when it achieves its perfection in eternity!
Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own!
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