Daily reflection12/23/2023 ![]() In today’s gospel reading, Jesus speaks about security of life. In this part of the world we are likely to have more security that people who live in other parts of the world. Security is a very legitimate human need and requirement. We like our lives to be financially secure we like to feel that our job is secure, that our home is secure, that our health is secure, that we live we a secure society. ![]() We all place a high value on security, in its various forms. When we ask the question, ‘What am I to do?’, our answer will be inspired by the message and the life of Jesus, who, in the words of Saint Paul, made himself poor for our sakes, so that we might become rich. As one of the contemporary hymns puts it, ‘freely you have received, freely give’. God has worked richly in all of our lives, and we are to called to allow God’s work to overflow through us to enrich the lives of others. We have all been richly graced and gifted by God in Christ, which has made us, in the words of that reading, ‘God’s work of art’. In the first reading, Paul speaks of God’s goodness towards us in Christ and how infinitely rich God is in grace. He stored up treasure for himself, but did not make himself rich in the sight of God. He had done nothing with the good fortune that came his way as a gift from God to be shared with others. When God called back his soul, the inner poverty of this rich man was revealed. Yet, his soul belonged to God, just as his crops belonged to all of God’s people. His speech to himself was full of the little word ‘I’ and ‘my’ – ‘my crops, my barns, my grain’, my goods and, even, ‘my soul’. The option of sharing his surplus with those who were struggling to live never crossed his mind. Holding on to what he had was his priority. He decided to build more barns to store his bumper crop. However, from God’s perspective he gave the wrong answer to his question. ![]() The rich man in the parable in today’s gospel reading asked the right question, ‘What am I to do?’ He had more crops than he had barns to hold them.
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