“Lord, did you not sow good seed in your field? Where does the weed come from?” And he answered them: “An enemy has done this!”.
And the servants said to him: “Do you want us to go and gather it?” “No,” he answered, “lest while you gather the weeds you also uproot the wheat. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers: Gather first the weeds and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.”
Life is strewn with our free choices, and perhaps the meaning of free will is rarely brought to light by meditating on the origins of its existence. How many times have you asked yourself the reason, for example, why the Lord allows you to make mistakes? Or why he lets his children choose to side even with evil? Probably a concrete answer about all the Lord’s work we will never discover. Yet there is a certainty to cling to, which goes beyond every evil committed, even defeating it, and that is: to trust what Christ teaches you. Time and again I have mentioned from the gospel "All things work together for good" or "Let the weeds and the wheat grow together," because throughout the Word of God, in His actions, in His explanations, in telling parables, it serves as guidance, proposals to understand how to live life, face problems and overcome them, improve the attitude of the heart to be inclined to good rather than evil. To make you understand what could happen as soon as you give in to bad things, and the glorious advantage made firm instead by the supreme good of the Lord. At the same time, however, you will not have read or heard from the words of Christ an imposition, a threat about "being forced to do" what is necessary for your good, without "obliging" you to love. His firmness in suggesting you prefer good rather than evil is instead more than evident. His thirst for justice against malevolent consequences without your sincere repentance and remedy is clearly expressed. I also believe that you or someone else may have thought or asked the Lord at times to stop your free will from falling into temptation or some error, becoming aware of the value of free will. Like the prodigal son, the thief on the cross, like Saint Paul or as read in the confessions of Saint Augustine. Jesus suggests to you that it is a "necessity" to be on guard against unstable temptations, the gravity of the consequences they could have on the heart, on your life and that of others. At the same time, however, He knows your human life in this precarious earthly world, made not only of His good and your efforts to act at best, but also of your continuous more or less conscious mistakes. Beyond good deeds, there are reasons for the mistakes each one makes, pushing us to reflect on an essential lesson of God's love: nothing remains at the mercy of evil, because nothing is lost when placed in the hands of the Lord. With the admission and repair of a sin, you experience the desire to rise again appreciating the love abundantly offered by the Lord, like forgiveness, learning to love yourself and love your neighbor. To avoid judgment, accusation against someone or wanting to impose at all costs your good advice, forcing out of pride the other to a mortification you did not even want to cause, and not in line with the free and gratuitous freedom of free will. Do you think that seeing or experiencing the authentic love of Christ arouses in you other love to give, the desire to imitate those who do good, to stimulate that seed placed in your heart by God, which calls you urgently to do more good? Each one has a unique story of salvation to complete. Could the Lord then take away from you the possibility to give a new meaning to the bad things you commit? Lord, I pray to you today and every day: "Do not abandon me to temptation."
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