“The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into His harvest.” (Luke 10:9).
I have been listening to my children complaining about many things over the last few days. One is annoyed that a teacher singled him out for something when he knows that his friend never gets singled out for doing the same thing. Another is irritated that I have asked them to complete the same chore each day of the week, and they do not feel that I am fairly asking their siblings to complete the same amount of work (this is not true – by the way). Another is concerned that I am not allowing them the freedom that their friends have and they think that this makes me a terrible mother…
All in all, there have been a lot of complaints in our family this week…
And I have been thinking about that as I go about my day. You see, it is easy enough to compare. But comparisons are really just a sign of weakness… They are a way of making excuses about why I did not perform up to standard. And I have been thinking about that in a spiritual context today…
You see, I was not created to compare. I was created to create… In other words, I was created in the Image and Likeness of God. This means that I was created to INFECT the world with God Himself – to, in my limited way – create a Garden of Eden in the world today, by bringing God into the world. And what does that mean? How does that look?
Well, that is the easy part. It means that I must use my talents – not make excuses about why I failed to use them… And I know this because, “After this the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them on ahead of Him, two by two, into every town and place where He Himself was about to come. And He said to them, ‘The harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few; pray therefore the Lord of the harvest to send out labourers into His harvest.’” (Luke 10:1-9).
And just as Christ – God Himself – “…sent them on ahead of Him…” twenty centuries ago, so too does He send me today. And just as He sent them with whatever talents God the Father had bestowed on them to give, so too does He send me out in the world with whatever talents God the Father has bestowed on me to give. And just as He followed after those seventy disciples two thousand years ago, so too does He follow after me.
Because He knows me, and He loves me, and He trusts me – just as He did for the “seventy”. And all He is asking from me, is that I be the person I was created to be. And when I think about that today, I feel such great peace in my soul. You see, I can understand why I have no reason to fear… For the God who created me is the same God who is sending me out. And that God is perfect and makes no mistakes. And that means, that if I open my heart to my Beloved and allow Him to work through me by accepting His Holy Will, I really cannot get it wrong. All I need to do is live my talents and use them. It does not matter if someone else can do something better than me – or worse than me – because all that matter is my mission and my responsibility to my God.
And when I think about that today, I realise how lucky I am to be a child of God…
For with prayer, I stand on Holy Ground where everything is clear. Here. At the Foot of the Cross.
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