I receive daily emails with inspirational words from this website. Today's was particularly timely and wonderful.
Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
2 Corinthians 11:18, 21-30
Psalm 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
Matthew 6:19-23
A reflection on today's Sacred Scripture:
But Store Up Treasures in Heaven. . . . (Matthew 6:20)
Jesus advises us to pay no attention to the worthless and empty things that fill most people's time on Earth. Take no delight in what money can buy - for then all one does is buy and buy and buy. Take no delight in food, for then all one does is eat and eat and eat. Where your treasure is, there is your heart also.
Be thankful for every good thing that is given on earth, be they riches or treasures, and be prepared to give all of them up for the sake of Heaven, for we can take nothing with us to that far country. God blesses us with these good things for the good of all around us. Money is worthless if it cannot help those in desperate situations.
Store up treasures in heaven - treasures of prayer, of service, of joy in the Lord. You can store these up as easily now as later. God is generous with His treasures and if we spent as much time searching for these as in the worthless pursuits of the day, we would be wealthy beyond words. Even so, even in our weakness, God waits, patient and loving, for us to take Him up on the offers He makes to us.
Store up your treasures in heaven - God gives so generously - allow Him to shower you with riches and joy and to lift up your life from the steady state it has come to be in.
~ JuandelaCruz | email: sriddle415(at)yahoo(dot)com
Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
2 Corinthians 11:18, 21-30
Psalm 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
Matthew 6:19-23
A reflection on today's Sacred Scripture:
But Store Up Treasures in Heaven. . . . (Matthew 6:20)
Jesus advises us to pay no attention to the worthless and empty things that fill most people's time on Earth. Take no delight in what money can buy - for then all one does is buy and buy and buy. Take no delight in food, for then all one does is eat and eat and eat. Where your treasure is, there is your heart also.
Be thankful for every good thing that is given on earth, be they riches or treasures, and be prepared to give all of them up for the sake of Heaven, for we can take nothing with us to that far country. God blesses us with these good things for the good of all around us. Money is worthless if it cannot help those in desperate situations.
Store up treasures in heaven - treasures of prayer, of service, of joy in the Lord. You can store these up as easily now as later. God is generous with His treasures and if we spent as much time searching for these as in the worthless pursuits of the day, we would be wealthy beyond words. Even so, even in our weakness, God waits, patient and loving, for us to take Him up on the offers He makes to us.
Store up your treasures in heaven - God gives so generously - allow Him to shower you with riches and joy and to lift up your life from the steady state it has come to be in.
~ JuandelaCruz | email: sriddle415(at)yahoo(dot)com
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