A SAINT once said, ask God and He will always answer our requests. Most often, we get angry when we do not receive what we pray for. We need not be dismayed for God always answers our prayers. Sometimes He says yes and sometimes He says no. Bust most often, if we ask God for something from our hearts, he always answers us with yes.
Over the years, it seems that greed has taken over everyone. On a larger scale, the world is in great turmoil and on the verge of having a global conflict. For instance, the United States wants more. It wants to become mega-power in the world. On the other hand, the Middle East wants more of the oil trade and their traders are unscrupulously doing dirty businesses with poor countries. They want to overtake one another in the oil industry at the verge of having violent conflicts in their territory. In Asia, the big dragon is spreading its breath of fire over the continent. It claims almost everything covered by their imaginary lines. In our beloved country, the killings are here and there, in the name of the future generations. In short, we want to play as little gods. We want to control our world and most often, we fail to ask God.
Our God is a good God. He listens. He allows us to do our will. He was, is and will never dictate us. St. Paul reminds us in his letters and writings. With our rationality and intelligence, we often miss this out and think that we have control and dominion all over. We forget the God of our forefathers.
Man is created with intellect and free will. These are the gifts that God bestowed upon us but are often abused. These gifts should have been used to help one another and never to destroy what God has created. Yet we use our intellect to promote the culture of destruction. We master and destroy the environment and nature we live in. We alter the laws of nature to suit to our greed and wants. Instead of us preserving nature, we exploit it to make our lives easier. We control the rivers by building dams and eventually destroying the habitats of river-dwelling animals. We turn the seas and oceans as our trash bins. We transform the mountains into landscapes and road networks. We pollute the air. Worst is, we use our fellowmen for our pleasure and evilness.
Today, one country wants to get the other. Others want to expand territories at the expense of destroying all its inhabitants, including man. Others want to test their apocalyptic weapons of mass destruction over populations that they see as toys.
Our God is a good God. He knows our passion. He allows us to do what we want. Now He sends us in advance what we want. The effects of what we had done are here and now. Climate change, calamities, plagues, diseases, volcanic eruptions, heat and cold waves, famine, pestilence, and many more are here. The Covid-19 is just the start of the more devastating effect on our re-engineered world. We alter the natural process and tinker with everything. The things that God saw were good during creation, yet man tried to develop and in the process destroyed them all.
It was never in God’s plan that death is the answer to all our conflicts. But, man has devised his end and most often it comes at a time he least expects. The man has destroyed and continues to destroy nature.
But all these could be altered back to that which is natural. We ask God to give us the courage and the grace to change our future. Let us do His will. That alone could be the answer.
St. Francis of Assisi and Pope John Paul II, pray for us.