What is the
purpose of your life in the first place? Let each one of us look at himself/herself, and try to answer these
questions in his/her heart:
1. Am
I thinking only to get always more and more money
2. My
riches, house, car and other
possessions- are they the important
things in my life
3. Am I so busy
getting all kinds of thing that I have no time for God?
4.
Am I rich before the eyes of people or am I rich in the eyes of God?
Rich
in his friendship which comes first in my life. Rich in sharing with others the
good things God have blessed me with.
Material
possession are not necessarily evil
. Having
money , living in a palatial
house, drinking costly wine with friends , having enough in life: these things
are not evil. But the preacher says these things cannot bring us lasting
happiness. They can be disappear quickly. Soon they can be
gone like the mist in the early morning.
And Jesus tells us that such
possessions cannot give us security. If
we trust them to give us happiness and peace of heart, we will be greatly
disappointed, like someone chasing the
wind: Jesus reminds us, “what does it
profit a man. To gain the whole world but suffers the loss of his soul? . (Lk.
9, 25).
What
Jesus also wants of us today is to
watch, to be on guard against this attitude of gathering, hoarding,
storing, accumulating all these things, while forgetting God and forgetting also to
share what He has given us.
One’s
life does not depend on earthly/material possession.
One’s
life should be: this He is rich in the eyes of God.