It’s not up to you

It’s not up to me either.

In today’s Gospel (John 15:12-17), our Lord reminds us that personal choice is not omnipotent. God has given us free will, but only the gift of his grace gives us what we truly need.

It was not you who chose me,
but I who chose you
and appointed you
to go and bear fruit that will remain,
so that whatever you ask the Father in my name
he may give you.

May the hand of the Lord be always upon us, so that we may bear fruit for eternity.