In today’s gospel, Jesus says, “A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an evil person out of a store of evil produces evil.”
Where do you fall in this divide?
It’s true that we tend to be our own worst judges, and even when we might deem ourselves as good, we know there are moments in which our thoughts and inclinations lead us towards paths we have a hard time admitting, even to ourselves.
But we know that before sin, there was goodness. God saw everything he had created and deemed it good, very good. This is the goodness that Jesus came to return us to, and it is the goodness that Paul preaches in today’s letter to Timothy: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.” To quote St. Paul again, “this saying is trustworthy and deserves full acceptance.”
The work of goodness is already begun. May the Lord continue his work and bring it to fulfillment, that all the fruit we bear might be good.