Monday October 21
Luke 12, 13-21:
“Watch and be on your guard against avarice of any kind, for a man’s life is not made secure by what he owns even when he has more than he needs… so it is when a man stores up treasure for himself in place of making himself rich in the sight of God”.
We live immersed in consumerism and the need to have. We accumulate more and more things.
We do not know how to live if we are not surrounded by everything that the media, advertising and fashion puts before us. We want to be rich to enjoy all that wealth can provide for us.
But all of that, like everything human, is ephemeral and can dissipate and break up at any time.
The wisdom of the Gospel invites us to make ourselves rich before God.
And the wealth that God values and wants is precisely our poverty, our detachment, our knowing how to put ourselves with absolute confidence into his hands…
May we know to value, first and foremost, his love, his affection, his closeness, his forgiveness, his grace, his goodness, his mercy…
This is the wealth that no one will ever be able to take from us. Fill yourself with the riches of God who is the only wealth that can enrich and satisfy you forever.
Good day.
Antonio Maria Sanjuan Marin, cmf
