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".