Gospel: Mark 6:7-13
Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave
them authority over unclean spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the
journey but a walking stick –no food, no sack, no money in their belts. They
were, however, to wear sandals but not a second tunic. He said to them wherever
you enter a house, stay there until you leave from there. Whatever place does
not welcome you or listen to you leave there and shake the dust off your feet
in testimony against them. So they went off and preached repentance. The Twelve
drove out many demons, and they anointed with oil many who were sick and cured
them.
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Reflection:
What is the advantage of not being attached to worldly things? We learn
to trust on the providence of God and we learn that the things of this world do
not matter for its temporary and fleeting. We learn that our faith in God is
more than enough to compensate for our lack of worldly things.
Come to think of it, how much money do we need to earn in our lifetime
that there are people who work their butts out to earn money? Money that if we
are not discerning could even contribute to our being sick! And then at the end
this same money that we’ve earned so hard may not even be enough to pay for our
hospital bills!
In the gospel, when Jesus told His disciples not to bring, food, money
and the like. He was essentially telling them not to worry for He would provide
for them. If God can provide for the birds and other animals will He not
provide for us whom He created in His image (Genesis 1:27)?
Many of us are so concerned with the material and physical aspect of life
such as the clothes that we wear. The high-tech gadgets that we have but in
close retrospection we actually can live even without these material things.
Our problem is we allow this world to dictate upon us. This is the reason
why many of us punish ourselves to work so hard to earn money. For what? So
that we could show off how wealthy we’ve become?
Jesus invites us to rethink our style of living for we may have already
become slaves of this world. Rather than become His faithful and trusting
followers. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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