May the Lord give you peace and health in the Holy Spirit.
It is 18th September 2021.
We reflect on 1 Tim 6:13-16 and the Gospel of Luke 8:4-15.
Growth is inevitable in every one of us. Some of us reach the best of its potency and many remain in its infancy.
Growth surely depends on where it gets planted, rooted, tendered, and tailored.
We all are born in a family and in a community and we are given the most viable environment for growth. Yet only a few of us reach its glory and become the crown, crust, and lustier of the family and community. So where did we go wrong that we ended up having stunted, and stagnated growth?
What we received from God is the supreme quality, but the outcome of our life does not match with the original potentiality. We cannot find fault with God for our underperformance. Just because, whatever the family or community we are born is the best of its kind with all its brokenness, limitations, and failures and therefore God expects us to reach the maturity to the fullest. It is indeed a waste of time and losing focus by constantly complaining, comparing, and criticizing where we are planted.
It is all about the disposition of the heart, not merely home that makes us fruitful to the full. “As for that in the good soil, these are the ones who, when they hear the word, hold it fast in an honest and good heart, and bear fruit with patient endurance.” (Lk.8:15). A heart that like Mother Mary is the one who cooperates, cogitates, collaborate to bear the brent of the growth to the hundredfold. The rest of the three dispositions such as thorny, rocky, and edgy have issues that they took upon themselves and stumbling with it and dissipated.
God created us all to be fruitful and beneficial to the rest of the family and community. May the Lord help us to be fruitful like Mother Mary, bringing Jesus into the world and become the witnesses of living the values of the Kingdom of God. God bless you.