Daily Reflection
July 19, 2026

We Are More Powerful For the Good, For God, Than We Can Ever Imagine:

We can, at times, be a love killing people.  So easy is it for us to pick ourselves apart, to pick apart our family, our friends, our neighbors for even the slightest of mistakes.  None of us is perfect.  We are all travelling this road we call life together, and there is enough going on in our lives and our world that already leaves us broken and bruised.  So, there is often a tendency among us human beings to rush to judgment.  Yet, today in the readings for our reflection we learn that God “judges with clemency, and with much lenience” and that we are called to follow suit.
 

The great thing about our God is that although this all-powerful God has the rightful power to condemn all of us as sinners our compassionate God does not do so. God thereby teaches us to imitate this divine way of being just by likewise not rushing to the judgment of others.  God teaches us, we, the people of God, out of God’s deeds of divine mercy in our lives, that we, “who are just, well we must be kind.”  
 

Human judgment is sometimes flawed, left to our own devices, the world of history seems to reveal that we humans most likely would totally destroy one another.   However, no one but God can judge who is good and who is not.  Until this world is reconciled by God’s divine love, then all of us, as we learn in our first parable of the wheat and weeds, that us humans, wheat and weeds alike, must live together in a space where mercy and tenderness abound.  Not only that, we are called to ‘cultivate’ this earthly realm as a place where we who have been shown mercy are to convert the hearts of the weeds with divine love.  
In the Gospel of Matthew, in the second parable of “the mustard seed,” Jesus I feel deeply wants to encourage us.  Encourage us to believe that whenever we experience ourselves tiny and helpless in the face of injustice and powers that be that we can, with God, be more powerful for the good than we could ever imagine.  Finally, in the gospel’s third parable of “the yeast” Jesus invites us to empowerment.  For like a small amount of yeast in a very large amount of dough, we have, just as how yeast interacts with dough, the power to totally transform this so often dark world with love.   
 

In the end then, we find our hope through Jesus to be strong in love, for the spirit indeed does come in aid of our weakness.  In every human being, every human being, there is a soul that is longing and groaning for the truth. Let the Spirit come.  We all long for what is right and good. We all know this feeling. Let the Spirit come.  We can bury it. We can hide it. We can medicate it. We can do all kinds of things to push it away. Let the Spirit come.  
 

For there is an unrest or uneasiness with things that are not the way they are supposed to be. Let the Spirit come.  So, this day and always may we continue to find hope in a God who encourages us with the powerful truth that God’s love for us, all of us, will never die.  As God is merciful, we are called to be merciful, to judge not, to let the kingdom come, and wherever and whenever we are weak in love, weak in loving ourselves or others, we have a holy spirit that will come.  Let the spirit come then.  Let it come.  Let it come!  LET IT COME!