Then with regard to the work we may be called upon to do, and each of
us has some special work to do for God. God made his plans for us before we
came into this world at all – for the work is of primary importance, it comes
first in God’s thought, and we follow as instruments. When an architect is
commissioned to build a house, he has to know first its destined use, its
locality, and the weather conditions, etc. Every detail must be taken into
consideration. Only then can he collect his materials and begin to work. The
foundations are slowly made, with pain and trouble and much work if the
building is to endure………..
God
is the architect. He has made our souls a certain size and shape, to fit
certain holes, so to speak. It is not for us to say that we are incapable, or
unfitted for the work given to us. That is not only to criticize ourselves,
which wouldn’t matter at all, but it is to criticize God. If meant, it is a
blasphemy. He has placed us in a certain position, and if he wants us to do a
certain work, we shall do it. If he doesn’t, we shan’t. In any case, it is not
for us to judge, but to obey his will. The doing of his will is not only the
reason for all our Lord’s life, but of our life, of all life. In its
accomplishment lies the fullness of life. “Now this is eternal life – that we
may know thee.” The will of God is made known to us through interplay of our
own interior impulses and desires, and our exterior circumstances….. Nothing is
ever quite what we anticipated. There is the interplay of circumstances on our
desires. It makes know to us what is God’s will for us; and so we give up in
our desires what does not fit in with God’s plan for us, content to do as he
wishes.
Father
Bede Jarrett
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