Jesus Calls for Justice and Mercy
Entering God's Kingdom
Mark 10:28-31 The Message
28 Peter tried another angle: “We left everything and followed you.”
29-31 Jesus said, “Mark my words, no one who sacrifices house, brothers, sisters, mother, father, children, land—whatever—because of me and the Message will lose out. They’ll get it all back, but multiplied many times in homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land—but also in troubles. And then the bonus of eternal life! This is once again the Great Reversal: Many who are first will end up last, and the last first.”
For Reflection
Leave everything behind. Leave your preconceptions and suppositions about how to live in the magician's bag of tricks. Leave your selfish desires in the trash can of useless endeavors. Abandon your secular rationality lying in the gutter where they belong. Fill your souls with the irrational love of God, Christ and the Kingdom of God. Freedom from the bonds of conventional wisdom will lead to unexpected joy and peace.
Pray
Pray for the joy and peace which can only come from the abandonment of your corporeal life and the adoption of a spiritual life in the manner of Jesus Christ.
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