The WORD today (See http://usccb.org/bible/readings/011114.cfm) reminds me that in our lives, we should be ready to decrease so Christ can increase.
It is written that man cannot serve two masters. One cannot serve both money and God. One must choose, and in the gospel, John tells us who we should choose.
We must decrease and Jesus must increase.
We cannot both love God, and love the world and what it brings. The values of the world is different from God's. Money, fame, power, riches, influence and possession are different from love, kindness, gentleness, forgiveness, mercy and compassion. We must choose only one.
God is a generous God, and in the first reading we see that if we ask according to His will, he will definitely give it to us. If in making God increase in our lives, he decides to bless us with things of the world, that's great. But as we deliberately choose Him, as we decrease of ourselves and our personal wants, so his will be done and he increase in out lives, we should be ready to forgo the things of this world and just be satisfied with only having one treasure - Jesus.
Father God,
Thank you for today. Thank you for another day to live. Thank you for another weekend. Lord, I pray that you give me a heart that would deliberately choose you always so that you can increase in my life, as I decrease and submit to you. Amen.
Blessed day!
In Christ,
-g-
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