Enjoying the Fruits that we never planted
Friday, 19th week in Ordinary Time
Jos 24: 1-13; Mt 19: 3-12
Have you heard a brother of Islam speak in public, or even in a familiar gathering? Invariably every one of them will begin with terms like, 'Insha Allah' or 'Masha Allah'... They actually mean 'if God wills' and 'God has willed' respectively. As much as I admire them for this courageous reference to God in relationship to their daily life, I wonder at our own Christian brothers and sisters. How much of this sense of God would they possess and propose to the world? It does so much good to realise everything in my life comes from the Lord - in the name of the Lord, for the will of God.
Dedicating oneself for God, for God's will, for God's task is a matter of choice, not merely on our part, but on the part of the One who is at the root of everything. Every good that we are blessed to carry out is a gift from God - according to God's will and towards fulfilling God's will. At times we make choices that serve our own ego and our own personal plans. But what matters is to realise that we are eating the fruits of plants planted once upon a time and be one such - planters of the tree of blessing. The call is to realise that we are being blessed constantly by the Lord and to understand clearly what our own blessings lead us to. Challenging moments, let us get ready to brave them. Pleasant moments, let us be mindful of the fact that we are enjoying the fruits of the plan we never planted!