Gospel: Luke
16:9-15
Jesus
said to his disciples: “I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest
wealth, so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings. The
person who is trustworthy in very small matters is also trustworthy in great ones;
and the person who is dishonest in very small matters is also dishonest in
great ones. If, therefore, you are not trustworthy with dishonest wealth, who
will trust you with true wealth? If you are not trustworthy with what belongs
to another, who will give you what is yours? No servant 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.”
The
Pharisees, who loved money, heard all these things and sneered at him. And he
said to them, “You justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows
your hearts; for what is of human esteem is an abomination in the sight of
God.”
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Reflection:
What is
the true wealth that Jesus speaks about in the gospel?
The
dishonest wealth such as money, possessions, power and the like are temporary,
fake and passing. And if we are not careful on handling this dishonest wealth
it may possess and eventually destroy us or we may destroy others just to
possess it.
The true
wealth is Jesus himself! Let us strive: To seek Him and to know more about Him. To
have a personal relationship with Him and to share our knowledge about Him. We
cannot have dishonest and true wealth at the same time we have to choose which
one do we want.
If you
would choose dishonest wealth it will certainly satisfy your earthly cravings
which by the way is bounded by time. So you enjoy it until such time that you
leave it or it leaves you. And then you end up with nothing but misery.
If we
have the true and everlasting wealth that is Jesus; we will not anymore be looking
for the temporary/dishonest wealth. For
the simple reason that you already possess the greatest wealth that one could
ever have in this world and beyond this world. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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