Cooperation with God. The need for cooperation in the life of each of us.

Someone said that God laughs when we plan something. If God is calling you, He has His plans for you. We can also say that we will not find peace if we oppose him. If God calls, it is right to follow his way. We must not run away. After all, there is no escape. Even though we know that God respects our freedom, when God calls us, we must not resist. If he is calling us, he has plans for us. Even in today’s Gospel, we heard how our Lord Jesus Christ said to his disciples: “The harvest is great, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into his harvest” (Mt 9:38).

The activity of the world is often manifested by a lack of time and especially by a lack of workers who will selflessly care for the good of those who do not realize that they have become slaves to their activity, that they are betraying themselves, that they have degraded the meaning of life, exchanged it for fleeting values ​​that they lose their meaning with death. It would be wrong for the Church to leave the field in which Christ commissioned her to care for those afflicted and depressed in their lives. Jesus pointed out that others, not with pure thinking, sincerity, and honesty, will be interested in these people. They will be like ravenous wolves in their methods and activities. The Church has the duty of shepherd even to those outside the Church. The world’s activity will always be more significant so that the harvest will be great, and the Church needs workers to remind the world of their purpose, goal, and mission of life. There will never be a surplus of workers in the world. The activity of workers always requires sacrifices. Many will also accept the vocation to become a worker in the harvest, but because of the worker’s sacrifices, some will resign at the beginning, others will be deceived, and others will be deceived… Those who persevere to the end will bring a rich harvest. Jesus draws attention to this situation by saying: “Therefore, ask the Lord of the harvest to send workers into his harvest” (Mt 9:38). This means that without prayer, any apostolate cannot stand.

The names of the apostles and the power with which Jesus bestows and entrusts them indicate that the Church is apostolic because it is based on the apostles, in the sense that it is based on the apostles as witnesses, whom Jesus entrusted with a missionary mission. With the help of the Holy Spirit, who dwells in the Church, the apostles will protect and pass on the teaching, entrusted treasure, and healthy words until Christ’s return. The Church is apostolic, which means that all members of the Church share in its mission, although in different ways. Through the sacrament of baptism, a Christian receives a call to apostolate. The fruitfulness of the apostolate of ordained ministers of the Church and lay people depends on their vital connection with Christ. The apostolate takes on the most diverse forms according to vocations, the times’ demands, and the Holy Spirit’s various giftst. 

We could compare the whole world to such a harvest. Each of us is an ear of corn, and our earthly life is a time when our souls, like ears of corn,