June 23, 2018 Saturday 11th Week in Ordinary Time 1st Reading: 2 Chr 24:17-25 Gospel: Matthew 6:24-34
No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?
“And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the
Assimilated Life
Experience)
We are so weak and powerless that even the smallest matters are beyond our control. Yet our incapacity is matched with the magnanimity of God. If our weakness is the source of our worries, God is the wellspring of our hope and strength. Our God is not irresponsible towards his creatures. He takes care even of the lower beings he had made. Can we expect anything less? The Psalmist exclaims: “What is man that you should care for him (…) Yet you have made him little less than a God, with glory and honor you crowned him, giving him power over the works of your hands and putting all things under his feet” (Psalm 8).
The proud who never acknowledges his limits won’t find any use for God. But the humble person understands that since even the smallest things are not within his control it is futile to engage in an endless struggle to control the bigger things on his own. He will come to God for strength. This does not mean he won’t do any work at all. He prays like everything depends on him and works like everything depends on God. Welcome to a worry-free life in the Lord. –(Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., D.M.
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