15 May 2018
Jesus fulfilled his calling.
Saint Paul fulfilled his calling, as did the Apostles, our Blessed
Mother, and countless others. They’ve
done their best to pass the faith along.
But then Saint Paul says, “I am not responsible for the blood of any of
you.” In other words, the responsibility
for our own faith doesn’t lie with anybody else, except us.
What we each do with the faith is our own
responsibility. What we each do with the
vocations and life callings we’ve been given is our own responsibility. At the end of the day, nobody’s responsible for
my life of faith other than “me.”
And I suppose that could be a scary thing; I mean, very few
of us live out our calling to perfection.
But Jesus isn’t looking for perfection; he isn’t looking to condemn anyone. He’s looking for faithfulness; he’s looking
to support us in our life of faith. Even
in the ups and downs of our lives, Jesus is looking for a pattern of
fidelity. That’s what we’re each responsible
for. Nobody can be faithful to God’s
calling for me other than…me.
And so, it’s actually an empowering thing: to realize that
St. Paul, St. Mary, even Jesus himself is not responsible for “me.” It’s as we heard this past weekend: Jesus has
taken the training wheels off. He’s
still there to help us, but what we each do with our life (especially our life
of faith) is up to…”me.”
Jesus and his Church have given us the gift of faith. But what we do with that is entirely up to “me.” So what am “I” going to do with my
faith? How am “I” going to live it out a
little more today?
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