Good Master

We have a good master. I forget this from time to time. I get caught up in the things that do not matter in this life. I get so attached to the outcome of life. I have to make it move faster, better, and make it happen a certian way. It is difficult to keep a detached attitude about life. God does not want us to be concerned about things that do not matter, yet we get so attached to them. We lose our connection to God, we begin to think that God has abandoned us, that God should not do it like this, and deep down we really think that God is not good to us. "If God was good to me this would not be happening." We don't think we think it, but deep down this is what we believe when worry and fear come over us. I just read that St. Ambrose was asked whether is was afraid to face God at the judgement. He replied by saying "we have a good master." We need to remind ourselves of this. I need to remind myself of this today.

So, my very dear friends, don't get thrown off course. Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light. There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle. He brought us to life using the true Word, showing us off as the crown of all his creatures.

James 1:16-18

We would never say it and we probably do not realize that we even think it, but sometimes when things do not go our way we do think that God is two faced and fickle. We think that God is just out to get us somehow and prove something to us. Really though God is a good God. Everything comes from God and is good. We tend to focus on only the negatives around us, but forget that all the while there are positive things that double or triple anything negative. I heard a sermon yesterday and the person told of an old hebrew story about two men walking across on the bottom of the red sea after God had parted the water. They complained about the mud in their shoes and how they were going to get the mud off. All the while a huge wall of water was being held back around them. The miracle, the postive, was missed due to the focus on the negative.

Today live a life that is detached from concerns about this life and things that do not matter. What I mean is that your attitude should be detached about this life - you should not be worrying about what is happening and attmepting to control the outcome. You should be focused on sacrificing your life to God, the good God, and keep it completely abandoned to God. Let the good master do what the good master does - care. Allow someone else, the good master who always gives good gifts, to be the one attached to your life and tending to and caring for it. We are God's to show off, I am sure God will care for what is that important.