Year A
Memorial of Saints John De Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues
Ephesians 2:1-10
Psalm 100:1-2.3.4.5 (R. 3b)
Luke 12:23-21
WE BELONG TO GOD
Yesterday, we realized from the readings that there is only one God and Mission start from God who is Triune. We also realized that the Holy Spirit is the life of Mission. Continuing with this theme, we must also realize that just as everything begins from God and ends in God, Mission ends in God. With this, let us reflect on the fact that we belong to God.
Today we commemorate the memorial of Saints…., their missionary work is sum up in this phrase; "belonging to God." The beginning of belonging is knowing that you belong to God. The true sense of belonging is the richness found in God.
Who are you with? Does the person makes you feel belonging?
Today's readings shows us how God makes us feel belonging, by letting us know that we belong to him. The point is, as today's first reading states, "we are God's work of art, created in Christ Jesus for the good works which God has already designated to make up our way of life."
Let me put it in another way, we are God's work of art, created in his Word for the good works which God has already designated to make up our way of life.
So yesterday as we realized that the Son is always been sent and always responding with Love, if we are created in his Word who is always been sent and always responding with Love, we belong to God, who is also always sending us on a Mission which we must accept and respond with Love who is the life of Mission.
Jesus Christ makes it clear in today's gospel when he said life does not consist in possessions. This point to the fact that true life is about giving, just as God gave himself and his life for us. St. Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologiae said something interesting about Charity or giving.
S.T Part I Q.12. A. 6
"… where there is the greater charity, there is the more desire; and desire in a certain degree makes the one desiring apt and prepared to receive the object desired…"
This is where riches begins, if we desire God, we must give ourselves to him, if we desire another thing like the rich man in today's gospel whose ignorance led him to think that he has stored things for himself which he will dwell on for the rest of his life.
He had more than enough and hence limited his desire for God, thus forgetting to be Charitable. Life himself has been charitable to us, God has been really charitable to us, and in his great Charity, his desire for us increased and he became human.
Let us remember that, where there is the greater charity, the is a more desire, so that we can surrender our everything to God who we are his work of art, and feeling belong, desire the more he who is the ultimate fulfillment of desire, God our riches.
By Sylvester Amakye-Quayson
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