27/02/2011 - 8TH. SUNDAY IN ORDINARY SEASON - A

1Reading Is 49,14-15 Psalm 61 2Reading 1Cor 4,1-5 Gospel Mt 6,24-34

We don't know what God knows, we don't see what he sees, therefore we cannot neither judge him, nor take his place in judging others, and not even think that we can teach him something. Isaiah wants to pass on to us a truth: it is not true what many say, or even all the people say, that God forgets all about us, does not care for us. It is not true! God is better than man, is better even than a mother, who cannot pass on her love to her child, that is, love him so much of never forgetting him. If a woman had to forget her child, she won't be a true mother. Hence, Jesus continues, God does not forget men. He is busy witht he birds and the flowers of the fields: to the birds he makes sure they find their food and to the flowers their colours and their beauty to be admired by all. Now, what are the birds and the flowers? Is not man more than these, more than the other creatures who made his creator rejoice when he was him as if coming out from his hands? Why would man busy himself with food and clothing to the point of forgetting that he has a Father whom he is to obey? What is man to do? He is to know and embrace the Father's wishes. These make him similar to him in dept of his heart. The man who wants to be a true son is to busy himself of the Father's plans, fulfills in all his will, enthrones him in his life and in the world. The son of God is then to live seren and full of trust. The Christian serenity of the christians is a witness in itself. It is a witness that God is a Father and that the things of the world are not God. The things of the world, even those that are beautiful, are not to take the first place and are not to be the first preoccupation of the believer. The believer, serves of the richness, if there are any, to manifest the love of God to the little ones, the poor and to those who cannot defend themselves. The believer sees all things destined to the service of the reign of the Father to create a certain fraternity among all men. The believer won't get agitated if he lacks something held to be necessary, because he is more to see the coming of the Reign of God and the growing of the Church. There would be more peace in the homes of the believers! Believers would be more at peace when challenged with issues that face them without warning! "Why would you trouble yourselves?" says Jesus. Preoccupations won't add nothing to our life, simply don't help: instead we should learn how to trust ourselves in the Father's hands, who knows how to take care of us as he takes care of the lilies and the birds of the sky. To whom preoccupies himself Jesus says: "Men of little faith"! And continues: "these things are sought by pagans". Those who do not know God, who does not know that he is a Father, these are the ones to preoccupy themselves, but we should not. We would offend him, we would keep him as unable to do something for us, without love. "Therefore, do not trouble yourselves for tomorrow". If we had to know the wisdom of God and his vision for us, we become aware of our inability to value what happens and what is there in our and others' hearts. Therefore we cannot judge no one. To do it we need to wait the coming of the Lord, who will put in light what has been kept secret. St. Pauls make the christians aware not to judge the others not even themselves. How easy it is to think that we have arrived, okay with God and with all! We are due only to be humble: it's not to us to know how we are, but only to be in the Father's hands, who knows us, love us, thinks for us and see that we lack anything what we need.
The Responsorial Psalm helps to us keep high our trust: "Only in God is my soul at rest: from him my hope. Only He is my rock and my salvation, my refuge: I shall not fall".

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