Reflection for May 28 Tuesday of the Eight Week of Ordinary Time: Mark 10:28-31

Gospel: Mark 10:28-31

Peter began to say to Jesus, “We have given up everything and followed you.” Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the Gospel who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age: houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come. But many that are first will be last, and the last will be first.”

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Reflection:

What are we capable of giving up for Jesus? Can we give up our riches? Can we give up our life of sin, hedonism and worldliness? Perhaps this is quite hard to do for many of us. 

But if we do so and we begin to trust and love Jesus more than this world. We would also see a marked improvement in our lives, there would be less human created worries, stress and problems. 

This is for the reason that we’ve decided to embrace Jesus more than this world. Jesus tells us in the gospel that if we give up this world and choose to follow Him. We would receive more than this world could offer. But what does this world offer us except sin, endless pressure through accumulation of wealth, power and problems. 

Let us try detaching ourselves from this world even for only a short time and we would see the big improvement that it would create in our lives. Let us cut our relationship and communication with our friends who have not brought any good into our lives. 

Let us also detach ourselves from our vices and anything that is sinful. After doing so let us develop a real relationship with Jesus. By attending Holy Mass more often, by praying more often and let us begin to develop a habit of reading the Bible. 

Let us not be afraid to give up this world for Jesus. Because there will be enormous rewards that awaits us the moment we decide to give up this world in favor of Jesus. But what are these rewards? The rewards are: Peace of mind, contentment, acceptance of the things that we  cannot change and so on. - Marino J. Dasmarinas