Reflection for 10/25/17

Have you ever been put in a position of leadership?  Have you ever had someone ask you to do something because they trusted you to get in done?  Have you ever noticed that once you do one thing for someone well, they continue to come back and ask for more?  Usually it is the ones who have the most on their plates already that get asked to do more and more.  Why is this?  Because that person can be trusted to do the task at hand and to do it well.

 

This is not just a natural phenomenon, this is Scriptural, as well.  Our Lord tells us, “Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.”  Just as in daily life, we are entrusted with many things, so too in the spiritual life.  When we are living virtuously and praying often and doing what God is calling us to do, then we will only be entrusted with more from the Lord.  But also, more will be demanded of us because of the closeness of the relationship we enjoy with the Lord.

 

For someone who does not practice the faith and does not seek to know God, their sins are still wrong but they may not incur the same level of responsibility as someones who is seeking to know God more deeply in his or her life.  It’s the difference between two siblings who break priceless objects in their parents’s house.  If one is an infant and one is a teenager, the teenager will be treated more severely because he or she should have known better.  

 

Let take this teaching of our Lord to heart and begin to live in a deeper relationship with him.  Indeed, he will entrust us with much, that is he will entrust us with a greater outpouring of the Holy Spirit, if we only ask for it.  But know, that once we ask for the Holy Spirit, we will also be expected to share that Holy Spirit with the world.  No matter what God demands of us, he will give us the grace and strength we need to fulfill his call.