The prophet
Ezekiel in our first reading today says to a prince of a nation named Tyre “Because
you are haughty of heart, you say, “A god am I!”
Archbishop
Thompson, when he was dedicating Saint Paul’s in Greencastle last weekend, said
we live in a culture where the temptation is for everyone to think of
themselves as a god.
Our wealth
and our technology tend to give us the impression that we ARE all
powerful.
But working with the poor, both the materially poor and also the spiritually poor and lonely are a great reminder that we serve a God who is especially mindful of the poor. When we work with the poor, we are doing what God has asked us to do, and working with the poor has so many benefits for US.
1) By cooperating with God, we are reminded that we are not God
2) By cooperating with God, we can glimpse His wisdom in setting up the world this way
3) By cooperating with God, we are changed by Him and become, over time, more and more like Him
We are not a
god, as the Prince of Tyre thought, but by cooperating with the
God, we become something better than a god which we can never be
anyway, no, rather we have been adopted into the very Trinity of God, and as we
grow in that relationship we see foreshadowings and glimpses of the eternal
bliss that awaits us if we stay the course
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