Responsibility? No, Privilege!

Jesus wants to use each one of us for the building up of His Kingdom.  We may feel as though we can’t do much, that we aren’t as gifted as others, that we won’t be able to make much of a difference, but that’s not true.  The truth is that each one of us is packed with unbelievable potential that God wants to bring to fruition.  He wants to bring forth from our lives glorious blessings for the world.  All we must do is allow Him to work.

Like a mustard seed (Mark 4:30-32), we must allow ourselves to be planted in the fertile soil of His mercy through faith and surrender to His divine will.  We must be watered by daily prayer and allow the rays of the Son of God to shine on us so that He can bring forth from us all that He desires and has planned from the foundation of the world. 

As I reflect today upon the incredible potential that God has placed within our souls, I recall how He made us with the intention to bring forth His Kingdom through us and to do so in an abundant way.  It’s our responsibility to simply believe this and to allow God to do what He desires to do in our life.

“Thus I pour out instruction like prophesy and bestow it upon generations to come.”  (Sirach 24:31)

St. John Bosco was filled with the zeal of the Holy Spirit and dedicated himself to the education of the young.  He realized that the gift had been given to be shared with the next generation so that they might be guided in their development and led into God’s ways. 

I believe that as parents (and grandparents) we have the responsibility and privilege to share our knowledge, our talents, and more importantly our faith and confidence in the Risen Christ with our “seed”—our children and grandchildren, in the hope that they grow to be the “largest of plants” in the Kingdom of God.