Allowing God to Work

WORD 2day: Saturday, 22nd week in Ordinary time

September 9, 2023: Colossians 1: 21-23; Luke 6: 1-5

Transforming a person is not difficult for God - Paul today reminds the Colossians how they have been transformed by God, from foreigners and enemies to pure, holy and blameless people of God. Yes, transforming a person is not difficult at all for God, provided there is a will on the part of the person to be transformed. The flesh could be weak, but what is needed is the spirit that is willing as Jesus would instruct his disciples.

Jesus found it so hard to make the pharisees and the scribes understand the Good News that he had brought. Hard, not because they were unintelligent nor because they were not able to see what Jesus was trying to tell them, but because they were unwilling to see, they were refusing to change, they had decided not to transform themselves. They did not allow him to make sense to them; they did not allow the truths that Jesus was expounding ever touch them.

We have today the sacraments and various other helps to pull ourselves up, make ourselves over and transform ourselves constantly in spite of our weaknesses, but we fail. Not because we cannot, but only because we do not want to, we do not will to. When we allow God to work in our lives, continuously pulling ourselves up and resuming our journey with the Lord, the Lord will surely transform us. That is the beautiful word we have in the responsorial, let us say it with faith: I have God for my help, but let us say with a readiness in our hearts and our minds to allow God to work on us!