We all must render an account to the Lord!
We all must render an account to the Lord! God knows our hearts! He knows everything about all of us. We cannot hide anything. We are like people who are naked in front of Him. He knows us very well! He made us, we are in His image! He only asks us to follow the example He gave us in His son Jesus, God with us, Emmanuel. We are called to follow Jesus! To imitate and reflect Him! It is not about becoming rich in money, material possessions, or things of this world. It is in becoming rich in Spirit, filled with the Holy Spirit from Christ and living each day with that Spirit, reflecting, and imitating Jesus Christ! Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy! This is all that matters, to be filled with His love and live like Him! As Jesus said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Do you want to be saved? Do you want salvation? We must give up everything and follow Jesus! It is clear in the Gospel reading for this week, rich people will not be able to get into Heaven unless they go and sell all, give it to the poor, and follow Jesus! Today we see so many, so rich, they just keep cheating the system, selling their souls to the devil, being slaves for Satan, making trades for more and more money from China or gold bars from Egypt, they sell out their countries and souls to Satan, thinking all this money is going to help them in life, it will only help them get into Hell. They do not seem to care about their reputations or family names, they then become known as criminal families. It is sad to see, most are elected, government officials, the elite, and powers that be, they live without God, do not have the Christ Spirit within, and think all the money in China will gain them passage. It is very clear from Jesus here, it won't. Go, sell, give, and follow! That is what Jesus said to do! We are called as part of our salvation, to follow Jesus, to reflect and imitate Him! We cannot be fooled by things of this world, we need to live in Spirit, following Jesus, so that we may enter Heaven to spend eternity with Him! No one at their funeral has ever had a Uhaul truck or something bringing all with them when they go to the grave, we cannot bring it with us when we die. We need to give it all away, we need to go, sell everything, give it to the poor, and follow Jesus if we want life eternal and Salvation in Christ!
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Wisdom 7:7-11
I prayed, and prudence was given me;
I pleaded, and the spirit of wisdom came to me.
I preferred her to scepter and throne,
and deemed riches nothing in comparison with her,
nor did I liken any priceless gem to her;
because all gold, in view of her, is a little sand,
and before her, silver is to be accounted mire.
Beyond health and comeliness I loved her,
and I chose to have her rather than the light,
because the splendor of her never yields to sleep.
Yet all good things together came to me in her company,
and countless riches at her hands.
Ps 90:12-13, 14-15, 16-17
R. (14) Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!
Teach us to number our days aright,
that we may gain wisdom of heart.
Return, O LORD! How long?
Have pity on your servants!
R. Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!
Fill us at daybreak with your kindness,
that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days.
Make us glad, for the days when you afflicted us,
for the years when we saw evil.
R. Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!
Let your work be seen by your servants
and your glory by their children;
and may the gracious care of the LORD our God be ours;
prosper the work of our hands for us!
Prosper the work of our hands!
R. Fill us with your love, O Lord, and we will sing for joy!
Hebrews 4:12-13
Brothers and sisters:
Indeed the word of God is living and effective,
sharper than any two-edged sword,
penetrating even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow,
and able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart.
No creature is concealed from him,
but everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him
to whom we must render an account.
Matthew 5:3
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Mark 10:17-30 or 10:17-27
As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up,
knelt down before him, and asked him,
"Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
Jesus answered him, "Why do you call me good?
No one is good but God alone.
You know the commandments: You shall not kill;
you shall not commit adultery;
you shall not steal;
you shall not bear false witness;
you shall not defraud;
honor your father and your mother."
He replied and said to him,
"Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth."
Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him,
"You are lacking in one thing.
Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor
and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me."
At that statement his face fell,
and he went away sad, for he had many possessions.
Jesus looked around and said to his disciples,
"How hard it is for those who have wealth
to enter the kingdom of God!"
The disciples were amazed at his words.
So Jesus again said to them in reply,
"Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle
than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."
They were exceedingly astonished and said among themselves,
"Then who can be saved?"
Jesus looked at them and said,
"For human beings it is impossible, but not for God.
All things are possible for God."
Peter began to say to him,
"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."
OR:
As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up,
knelt down before him, and asked him,
"Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?"
Jesus answered him, "Why do you call me good?
No one is good but God alone.
You know the commandments: You shall not kill;
you shall not commit adultery;
you shall not steal;
you shall not bear false witness;
you shall not defraud;
honor your father and your mother."
He replied and said to him,
"Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth."
Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him,
"You are lacking in one thing.
Go, sell what you have, and give to the poor
and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me."
At that statement his face fell,
and he went away sad, for he had many possessions.
Jesus looked around and said to his disciples,
"How hard it is for those who have wealth
to enter the kingdom of God!"
The disciples were amazed at his words.
So Jesus again said to them in reply,
"Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle
than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."
They were exceedingly astonished and said among themselves,
"Then who can be saved?"
Jesus looked at them and said,
"For human beings it is impossible, but not for God.
All things are possible for God."
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