Know today what has not happened to your sons who do not know… the teachings of the Lord… his strong hand and his outstretched arm › Dt 11, 2.
Moses addressed these words to the people who witnessed many divine events and for humans the mind of incredible things. They witnessed the unquestionable interventions of God in their lives. They experienced that everything is possible for him and that nothing can happen against his will. Yet they rebelled against him, despised his gifts, and desired the things from which he kept them away.
Will we be ungrateful, unworthy, unreasonable, or irresponsible? Well, they were, but God continued to take care of them and admonish them because the sick needed a doctor. Even religious people are not spared adversity, suffering, or humiliation. The Holy Scriptures do not speak of believers as the privileged ones who walk on a red carpet strewn with flowers, but as people who can experience suffering with the confidence that whatever befalls them can be for their good.
Says the mother: “My son, who is three years old, cuddles up to me and knows he can trust me. It is good that he goes through various experiences, that he falls, scrapes his knees, pricks himself with a rose thorn, etc. In these situations, he cries, but this is the only way he can grow and harden.” Believers can lean on unshakable support: on God, whose wisdom and whose love makes them calm, even when they go through periods of darkness and do not understand the cause of many things. God wants to help us in our lives, he wants to enlighten us with his light; we have to shut up and listen to him.
We run in many directions every day, we want to use the time. Our minds are busy with work, family, and a whole range of duties. Let’s face it, we rarely think about God. We have a lot of plans and time seems to fly. And yet, how much time do we waste with useless talks or watching TV… Well, if we want, today we can decide in our heart to wait for the Lord, to give him time to visit us and touch us with his presence. If we wait for him, he will lean toward us.
