Dependence on God

Today's Reflections

                               

 

     

Dependence on God 

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Mt 6:24-34

[Jesus said to his disciples,] ²⁴“No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

²⁵“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat [or drink], or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? ²⁶Look at the birds in the sky; they do not sow or reap, they gather nothing into barns, yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are not you more important than they? ²⁷Can any of you by worrying add a single moment to your life-span? ²⁸Why are you anxious about clothes? Learn from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. ²⁹But I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them. ³⁰If God so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith? ³¹So do not worry and say, ‘What are we to eat?’ or ‘What are we to drink?’ or ‘What are we to wear?’ ³²All these things the pagans seek. Your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. ³³But seek first the kingdom [of God] and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides. ³⁴Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil.”

Reflection:

You cannot serve God and mammon. It is not bad to have money and save it. But money must remain our servant, our tool, and never our master. We need to work to earn a living, but it is bad to live with no concern but to make money. Money is good as a servant, but money is a tyrannical master.

A Korean priest friend of mine explained to me how many Koreans single-mindedly work, and work and work for money, and have no time for much else. They earn a lot of money, he said, but they are not happy.

When God is our master, we are happy, because his is our almighty Father who cares for us and provides for us.

Serve God and be happy!