“So do not worry about tomorrow: tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
Many of us
(Catholics) may have been able to relate (or hopefully had been moved) with today’s Gospel which actually
tackles the following:
On
Serving Two Masters
The Gospel teaches us
that you can never serve two masters.
In today’s dominance
of materialistic desires, our priorities have focused too much on “serving”
mammon (defined as greed on power, wealth or fame). Some have already neglected
the idea of “serving” God, practicing the Catholic faith. While for some, they
do say that they can “serve both”. However, basing on the Gospel, we can never serve both, we can never be a slave to both.
As what the Gospel states "he will either hate the first and love the second, or be attached to the first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money."
The fact that the "two masters" are totally different tells us that serving both is a
half-hearted action, of being untrue to what or who we really are. And it will always be a matter of questioning the real intention or purpose. Are you serving both because you know that it will be beneficial or convenient to you? Come to think of it, such action to simply put in Tagalog, “ay pagiging isang balimbing”.
The Gospel today
teaches us that you can only choose to be a slave either for God or (not "and") for mammon.
So which side are
you?
On
Worrying
Being a person who
fears failure, rejection and uncertainty, it is but inevitable to worry a lot. But
today’s Gospel, which was solidified further by the Homily, is a simple realization that life should be lived with full faith on God, to cast our burdens upon Him,
and everything will be alright.
Life should be lived
happily, believing that what awaits all of us is great future with our Saviour.
Worrying doesn’t
provide answers to our problems, it actually only aggravates the problem or
negative situation that you are with. Worrying only means that you lack faith
on God, you lack trust on His grand plan for your future. Quoting a verse from the Gospel “Can any of you by worrying add a single
moment to your life-span?”
As what the priest
has mentioned during his homily, “in cases where you seem not to find any
solution to your problem, simply write it, and put in a box that states Something For Good To Do”.
The Gospel today
simply tells us to live each day full of positivity and faith, and always
remember “Do not worry, be happy”. :)
Today’s
Gospel:
Matthew 6:24-34
24 'No one can be the slave of two
masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or be attached to the
first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both of God and of money.
25 'That is why I am telling you not
to worry about your life and what you are to eat, nor about your body and what you are to
wear. Surely life is more than food, and the body more than clothing!
26 Look at the birds in the sky.
They do not sow or reap or gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds
them. Are you not worth much more than they are?
27 Can any of you, however much you
worry, add one single cubit to your span of life?
28 And why worry about clothing?
Think of the flowers growing in the fields; they never have to work or spin;
29 yet I assure you that not even Solomon in all his royal robes was clothed like one of these.
30 Now if that is how God clothes the wild flowers growing in the field which are there
today and thrown into the furnace tomorrow, will he not much more look after you, you who have so little faith?
31 So do not worry; do not say,
"What are we to eat? What are we to drink? What are we to wear?"
32 It is the gentiles who set their hearts on all these things. Your heavenly Father
knows you need them all.
33 Set your hearts on his kingdom
first, and on God's saving justice, and all these other things will be given you as well.
34 So do not worry about tomorrow:
tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.'
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