Daily Reflections- February 28, 2012

THE END FOR WHICH HE WAS SENT

 

The writer Matthew Kelly makes a good point when he says that most young people nowadays are missing a whole lot for the simple reason that they don’t know what they want. They don’t have singleness of purpose. And if one does not have a sense of purpose, it doesn’t matter much what happens. Anything will do. “Que sera, sera,” as the old song goes. Whatever will be, will be!

Kelly argues further that people who have a sense of purpose and are focused on what they want go a step farther. They eventually develop the virtues, habits and skills needed to propel that dream. Bill Gates knew what he wanted, and he lost no time developing whatever it would take to make him reach his dream. Blessed Mother Teresa also had it. So did Blessed Pope John Paul II.

Little Johnny Bosco also nurtured what he euphemistically called a dream. At nine years old, he already nurtured a vision that accrued from a dream about wolves becoming sheep. Almost 175 years after, that dream has become, and still is, a reality in more than 130 countries all over the world.

But apart from Mother Teresa of Calcutta, John Paul II, John Bosco and many other saints, there was someone else who had a dream for humanity, for the world, for all men and women of good will — God!

Today, the First Reading gives us a glimpse of that divine dream. Using the images of rain and snow that does not come down and return up without first producing good results, God’s Word, Isaiah tells us, does not return to Him void but achieves the end for which God sent it.

Our faith in the power of the same Word leads us to do as God’s Son did. We pray and talk to the Father in the words our Lord Himself taught us. And how do we know this prayer is efficacious? We know it through the example of the Son. He had singleness of purpose: to do the Father’s will, the end for which He was sent. Fr. Chito Dimaranan, SDB

 

REFLECTION QUESTION: Have you found your life’s purpose? If you haven’t, avail of the grace of the Lenten Season to listen to God and know the purpose for which He created you.

 

Grant me, Lord, a singleness of purpose that I may fulfill Your will for my life.