God: the poor businessman!
Tuesday, 11th week in Ordinary Time
2 Cor 8: 1-9; Mt 5: 38-42
Among us friends we have a good laugh whenever we think of an elderly religious who was put incharge of the farm that belongs to a community. Every year at the annual audit he was used to repeating a remark, in his own inimitable modulation: "what put I get, what I get I put...no profit, no loss, no problem".
If we look at the love that God had lavished upon humanity, he would not have got back even a tiny fraction of what he has put in! Incarnation is just one of the many mighty investments that God had made on our behalf (cf. 2 Cor 8:9)... but consider the dividends! God seems to be such a bad business person and the strangest part of it is, Jesus invites us to follow God's logic! Nothing else is fitting enough for true God's children. Let's love without counting the cost.