July 22 The Heart of St. Paul
Many Americans live by this motto: “Why do today what you can put off until tomorrow?” One of the activities that people frequently postpone is prayer. They place it at the end of their day or see themselves as too busy to pray at all. In the course of a hectic life, prayer may be the last thing we consider. St. Paul reminds all of us that prayer must be the first thing we do.
He writes to the Corinthians in his Second Letter that “We trust you not to accept the grace of the Lord in vain. Behold, now is the acceptable time; behold now is the day of our salvation!” (2Cor 6:1-2).
Every day God bestows on us many different gifts such as wisdom, courage and perseverance, but if we do not use them, we waste them. God is not to be our last resort, but our starting point. Oftentimes, we turn to God only when all our other options have been exhausted. Paul reminds the Corinthians and us that if we turn to God first, not only will we find more opportunnities to do good, we will not have to accomplish them on our own. The whole world is soaked through with the anointing of the Holy Spirit through death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We live in a time of grace, a time of opportunity to face the evils of the world. We also have been given the power through Christ to overcome evil with good. Let us not waste the grace God offers us. Let us put it to good use for the sanctification of ourselves, the world and the glory and honor of God.
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