This week we’re focusing on the virtue of justice, and I want to bring our attention to the justice we owe to God. Just as justice requires that we give all people—teachers, strangers, friends—their due, so too does it require that we give God what He deserves. And what is this? Our undivided love and service.
On the Feast of the Annunciation, as I contemplated Mary’s Fiat, her “yes” to God, I considered how to be just, I, like Mary, must strive to always respond to the Lord and His will for me with a resounding “yes.”
But I can’t say “yes” to everything!
Yep, that was my initial thought. If I always say “yes,” I will be stretched like a twin-sized bed sheet over a queen-sized mattress, and things won’t be pretty.
Then I realized—God isn’t going to ask of me anything, or things, that He doesn’t already know I can handle. But I know I can’t do everything. Right. That’s why sometimes, I need to say “no.”
Say “no!”
Yes. If we’re asked to do something we know we can’t do, something God doesn’t want us to do, we have to say “no.” By saying “no,” we’re really saying “yes” to God. And when we say "yes" to God, we are practicing justice.
May God bless us all, as we strive to live out these virtues for the remainder of Lent and the rest of our lives.
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