THAT gospel parable
about the sower and the seed (cfr. Mt 13,1-9) somehow reminds us that we have
to be the good ground that would readily receive the seed of God and make it
grow to its fullness. Only then can we aspire to transform the world the way
God wants it transformed in Christ through the Holy Spirit.
Let’s remember that only in Christ is the mystery of God’s will
for us known. Only in Christ would we be able to “recapitulate all things,
those of heaven and those of earth.” (Eph 1,9-10). That is to say, that only in
Christ would all things be gathered together in unity under God, things that
have been scattered and divided because of our sins.
We need to return to God. And we have to bring the whole of the
world to God also because everything comes from God and belongs to God. In
Christ, we have been given the way and the means so that God may be “all in all
things.” (1 Cor 15,28) That is why God took on human flesh in Christ. By
becoming one of us, Christ has transformed the world from within.
Since we are patterned after Christ, we should feel the duty to
collaborate with him in his work of transforming the world. We need to realize
that the world ought to be prepared for the coming of the Kingdom of God.
How will we do it? By becoming more and more intimately
identified with Christ, living out his very essence and mission which is driven
only by love. It is only with this love that we can manage to transform the
world.
Let us see to it that we more and more grow in that love shown
and shared with us by Christ. Like Christ, we should love everyone, including
our enemies. It is his love that would enable us to want and to work for the
good of others, irrespective of how they are to us. It is his love that would
keep us always interested in the welfare, both the material and spiritual, of
the others.
Obviously, if we have this kind of love, we would do everything
for God and for the others whatever it may cost. And we would do it
gratuitously, without expecting any reward. Of course, we all know that God
cannot be outdone in generosity. The more generous we are in our love, all the
more generous would God love us in return.
To be effective in this mission of transforming the world, we
have to make ourselves credible witnesses and collaborators of Christ. In this
regard, we cannot overemphasize the need to thoroughly master the doctrine of
our faith as revealed to us in full by Christ. We have to learn the dynamic art
of how to win true and deep friendship and confidence of the others.
We should try our best that we can earn what Christ once told his
disciples—that “whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you
rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.” (Lk 10,16)
This, of course, will require of us constant struggle and
recourse to all the means that Christ, and now the Church, has made available.
May we always feel the urge to follow Christ as closely as possible so that
with him and in him, we can truly transform the world, bringing the world back
to God, its creator.
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