Wednesday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time
“Much will be required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of the person entrusted with more.”
This single line from our Lord in the Gospel today provides a tremendous amount for us to chew on. God gives us our talents, gifts, time, and treasure for a purpose. Each and every single one of us has been crafted in the image of God in the infinite love of our Creator. We are sustained in existence from moment to moment throughout the entirety of our lives purely by His love and His will. All that we are and have comes from God. He has given us our existence and personal freedom as pure gift, and has designed us each for infinite love, goodness, and fulfillment in relationship with Himself.
In reality, even the demands that God makes of us are oriented towards our greatest happiness and fulfillment. God asks us to put relationship with Him first, and then to love and care for one another. Let’s be real, it can be challenging to make time to cultivate relationship with God in the midst of the hectic craze of daily life. It can be challenging to love people the people around us who sometimes are really difficult to love. But when we make the choices to do these things, we make the choice to allow God to work in and through us, and there is nothing He cannot or will not do for us if we allow Him. Much is expected from those who have been given much, but there is no end to the infinite blessings that God will lavish on those who surrender their hearts to Him alone.