Tuesday, May 29, 2018
8th Week in Ordinary Time
1st Reading: 1Pet. 1:10-16
Gospel: Mark 10:28-31
Peter spoke up and said to Jesus, “We have given up everything to follow you.” Jesus answered, “Truly, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters, or father or mother, or children, or lands for my sake and for the Gospel, who will not receive his reward. I say to you: even in the midst of persecution he will receive a hundred times as many houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and lands in the present time and in the world to come eternal life. Do pay attention: Many who now are first will be last, and the last, first.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life
Experience)
Today’s Gospel tells us that the standards of the world are the reverse of the standards of God. Jesus said, “Many who now are first will be last, and the last, first.” While the world chooses superiority for earthly fame, the Lord proposes humility for spiritual gain. While the world submits to the mighty and the powerful, the Lord is moved by the might of the prayerful. Those who give up a legitimate status on earth for the sake of the kingdom are assured of commensurate reward in the life to come. Didn’t Lazarus, who patiently suffered want on earth, rest happily in the bosom of Abraham after death? He was poor on earth but after he died he amassed in heaven so much genuine wealth.
The standards of the world are attractive because they offer fulfillment right away. In contrast, the promise of God is yet to be fulfilled in eternity. It doesn’t take so much faith to trust the outcome of the ways of the worldly. In fact, it only takes a little shrewdness in the use of money. In contrast it takes so much faith to trust in ways of the Lord. Often we fail to understand his ways that neither our minds nor our hearts can fathom and hold.
But doesn’t it matter to us that happiness on earth is temporary and fleeting? We can never attain on earth the perfect satisfaction we are seeking. We can be happy now but can be sad any minute later. Even the king is always threatened by a power-grabber. Our friends today can all disappear tomorrow, leaving us lonely and heavy with unbearable sorrow. Haven’t we experienced abandonment even by members of our family? How pathetic that many of them used to adore us when we still had plenty.
Let us not be lured by the comforts of this world. We know we are better off in the hands of the Lord. If we always keep an eye on our inheritance in paradise, no amount of earthly bounty will ever suffice. For we know that soon the standard of the Lord will reverse the standard of this world. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.
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