Jesus
summoned the Twelve and gave them power and authority over all demons and to
cure diseases, and he sent them to proclaim the Kingdom of God and to heal the
sick. He said to them, “Take nothing for the journey, neither walking stick,
nor sack, nor food, nor money, and let no one take a second tunic. Whatever
house you enter, stay there and leave from there. And as for those who do not
welcome you, when you leave that town, shake the dust from your feet in
testimony against them.” Then they set out and went from village to village
proclaiming the Good News and curing diseases everywhere.
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Reflection:
How do you
live in this world? Do you live with your trust and confidence in Jesus or you
are living with your trust on yourself and in this world?
When Jesus
sent the twelve apostles to their mission of evangelization He told them this:
“Take nothing for the journey, neither walking stick, nor sack, nor food, nor
money, and let no one take a second tunic (Luke 9:3). What does this very
important statement of Jesus imply to the apostles? Jesus in essence was
telling the apostles, rely on no one but me for I will provide for all of your
needs!
Did they rely
on Jesus? Yes of course except for Judas Iscariot who betrayed Him. The eleven
of them relied on Jesus that’s why they were very successful in their mission
of evangelization. Majority of them even gave their lives for their mission and
reliance to Jesus.
This is a
good point of reflection for all of us as we continue our journey in this
fleeting world. To whom do we rest our lives in this world? Do we rest it on
Jesus or we rest it on this world and ourselves?
Many of us
continue to work so hard to accumulate temporal things. There are even some of
us or many of us who even work during Sundays so that we could have what we
want. So, we sacrifice our worship for God at Holy Mass in exchange for our
accumulation of worldly things.
Reliance on
material things of this world will bring us only to emptiness. Even if we
accumulate all of the material things of this world we would still not be happy
we would still have this very deep feeling of void.
What if we
rely on Jesus? Then we are already complete and we are the happiest and most
contented person in this world even if we have no material riches. For
the simple reason that Jesus is more than enough than any material thing/s of
this world.
We cannot
bring to the next life the worldly things that we rely on this world. But if we
rely on Jesus if we rest our lives in Him this would assure us of eternal life
in heaven with Jesus.
To whom do
you rely? - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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