The texts today from the Roman Catholic Lectionary suggest
some consideration of the need of people to understand that the powerful and sophisticated
ideas, techniques, procedures of our world are tools which we may use to bring
about change in our thinking or the group direction or even evangelization.
Isaiah comments on how the Assyrian empire is the tool of God to influence change
in the people of Israel but it will not be able to replace God as the source of
life and guidance for the people. Tools in the hands of the inspired and gifted
facilitate beauty. The Craftsperson wielding the tool is the creator of Beauty
and Wisdom. The tool cannot be in charge of the creation. Friar Jude Winkler, reflecting on the Gospel from Matthew, considers how the gift of a simple approach to life reveals the Providence,
mercy and love of God. The appropriate attribution of praise and thanksgiving
to God is too often lost in the tendency of the learned and sophisticated to
justify their practice of scholarship, strategic analysis, psychological
investigation and legal precedent as truth. The tools with which we are gifted
are to be used for the greater glory of God which is in the experience of
people fully alive and free from obstacles to intimacy with the Divine
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