"SELL WHAT YOU HAVE AND COME FOLLOW ME"

    28^th  February, 2022:

MONDAY, EIGTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

(1 Peter 1:3-9); (Mk 10:17-27)

"SELL WHAT YOU HAVE AND COME FOLLOW ME"

Dear brethren in Christ, today as we pay attention to the Words of the Scriptures, we are being helped to remember the implication for us to be actually enthusiastic to God, to obey with His Law and teachings, to be delicate to Him and effort to be absolute in our devotion and activities to be at any point attentive on His impartial. It intends that as Christians we should not be warmish in our sureness, and we must not be ignorant over what we are wholly called to do as Christians, in being valid and great spectators of the Lord's realism in our present reality.

In our first reading today, we paid attention to the expressions of St. Peter the Apostle speaking to all of us finished his Epistle in respects to the enquiry of how self-assurance in God is significantly more important than all the affluence and enjoyments of the world. Finally, regardless of how much gold and abundance we people might assemble, yet but if we have confidence in the Lord, we will not have anything left with us. All the wealth and shared things we have and amassed with us won't ever fulfill us, and it won't keep going forever. What's more we can neither carry those things with us.

That is actually why it is carelessness for us to capitalize such a lot of liveliness and work to work for ourselves a strange and rich plenty and fortune in this world, and subsequently wind up trailing our overtone and influences to the Lord. Pessimistically, that was actually what great numbers of us had done beforehand. We often arranged such a huge total around common substances, our wishes, desires and needs among many others, that we wind up unravelling ourselves gradually more from the Lord. Large numbers of us Christians wound up falling away from the way towards God and His salvation.

Today, in our Gospel entry we knew about how the Lord spoke to His followers and a man who came reliant on upon Him and demanding Him how he should look for the realm from God. In that occasion, the man before spoken that he had efficiently followed every one of the acts and precepts of the Law, agreeing to all as the Law of God as exposed through Moses had demanded that he do. However, when the Lord then, at that point, demanded that the man do somewhat final to follow Him, that is by deserting everything, selling his assets as a whole and products, and giving them to poor people, the man was quickly discouraged, sacking and left the Lord.

It was contained the way that the man was a man of strange abundance. Therefore, it was optional that the man tormented meaningfully over the prospect of being remote from his strange properties in general and riches, and hence, left in suffering since he was incapable to do it by any means. However, in case we misinterpreted visualization that God needs us to mart the sum of our riches and assets, which isn't what He probable for us, we should know that the Lord needed to demonstrate us a direct that our networks toward common things regularly become our most noteworthy disablement in our way towards the Lord and His salvation.

The man with extraordinary abundance adored his riches and assets significantly more than he cherished the Lord, and notwithstanding his compliance to the statutes and subtleties of the Law and the instructions of God, he had not yet made the Lord the main need in his life. Furthermore this was actually what the Lord planned in talking about through this experience and experience. The man didn't attempt to do what the Lord had requested that he do, and on second thought, withdrawing in distress, without attempting to give his very best for satisfy the solicitation from the Lord.

That is the motive, as Christians, we all are named to restrain ourselves from the common allurements and every one of the influences that we frequently have towards the many debased desires of this world. We don't have to take to the sequences of action of selling our assets as a whole and leaving any trick of all that we have, and rather, more significantly, we really want to return the Lord to the main part of our lives, to be the central and focal point of our lives. We need to put Him at the core of our ordinary living and endeavor to give our very best for celebrate God by our lives, all our doings, words and deeds.

Brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ, as we are similarly going to go into the season of Lent, the forty days of willingness, of abstaining and patience and of reorientation of our lives, let every one of us use this open door which God has given to us, with the goal that we might entice nearer and faster to Him, and develop continually in our sureness and promise to Him. allow all of us to give our time, action and pensiveness regarding serve the Lord solemnly from here on out, and allow us to give our best for be extraordinary good examples and motivations for each other in our confidence and by the way we content this confidence in our discrete lives.

May God be with every one of us usually, and may He strengthen us in our wish and resolve to lead an always dependable life, and a day to day existence that is loaded up with ever more remarkable true craving to follow the way which God has shown us, eliminating ourselves from the appeals of common overabundances and wrongs. May God favor us generally, in all our stock works, deeds and efforts, presently and steadily, forevermore Amen.