It is the Master who sends!

WORD 2day: Saturday, 14th week in Ordinary time

July 9, 2022: Isaiah 6: 1-8; Matthew 10: 24-33

It is the Lord who sends; it is the Master who calls; it is the Teacher who commissions! It is not because I am worthy to be sent, or qualified to be called or skilled to be commissioned... but it is because it is the Lord who calls! As St. Paul says it in such simple terms: "those whom he called, he justified" (cf. Rom 8:29). However unworthy I am, when the Lord has appointed me for a mission, he makes sure that mission goes on through me.

On my part the challenge is to be mindful of the fact that it is the Lord who has sent me and commissioned me and to be convinced that the Lord takes care of everything around me, provided I live my life faithful to the call. A thousand may fall at my side and ten thousand at my right hand, but nothing will come near me, for I have made God my refuge, prays the Psalmist (in Ps 91:7). I may not be worthy for the call, but I need to be mindful all the time - be it of the call or of my unworthiness!

It is the Lord who has called me and it is Lord who has commissioned me: I am accountable to the Lord and only to the Lord. In this world and to those around me, I have nothing to prove! So all the craze about success and accomplishment, is a horrendous mistake, is it not? 

All that I need to do, is stand in awe at the majesty of the Lord, believe in the Lord's sovereignty and submit myself in total faith into the hands of God, saying "Here am I Lord, send me!" When the Lord does, we will see the glory of God revealed in marvelous ways! All praise to the Lord and the Lord alone!