Hospitality is a vocation for a Christian. Jesus emphasized on the need to make the best use of our gifts, talents and assets, in our service to God and to others.
What we saw in today’s Gospel in the encounter between Jesus and the young rich man was a call to a radical hospitality. Jesus calls us into a relationship with him. One cannot be fully alive without relationships with others. We are made for love, to be unified in a giving and receiving with others and ultimately with God. If we close ourselves off to service, we will never create the space within ourselves to be filled with the love of God.
We are reminded that obeying and following the Law, the commandments of the Lord, in all its many precepts and rules is good. However, we must live a self-less life and not a self-fish life.
Charity, Scripture says ‘covers multitude of sin’.
God may not ask you and I to sell everything we have or possessed. But He may ask us to do something different and unique, like he asked the young man in the gospel.
Saint Mother Teresa would say: “Love is a one-way street. It always moves away from self in the direction of the other. Love is the ultimate gift of ourselves to others. When we stop giving, we stop loving, when we stop loving we stop growing, and unless we grow, we will never attain personal fulfillment; we will never open out to receive the life of God. It is through love we encounter God.” (Where there is Love, there is God, p. 26)
What is the top priority of your life?
What is it that you are attached to?
Do you have any possession preventing you from truly being able to commit yourself thoroughly as a disciple of the Lord?
Do you have anything holding you back from say “yes” to God?
“The very fact that God has placed a certain soul in our way is a sign that God wants us to do something for him or her. It is not chance; it has been planned by God. We are bound by conscience to help him or her.” (Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living)
Have a blessed Week
