Romans 4:1-8 / Luke 12:1-7
If we ever get to heaven, we ought to be surprised, maybe because we should be surprised that we could ever get there in the first place.
Indeed, how many of us can say that we truly deserve to be in heaven.
We may be baptized, live religious lives, are good people and even doing service and great things for the Lord.
But does that mean that we can claim for ourselves a place in heaven?
The 1st reading said that if a person has work to show, his wages are not considered as favour, but rather as his due.
But when a person has nothing to show except his faith and trust in God, then that person is truly blessed.
Abraham was given as an example of a man who put his faith in God, and hence his faith was a blessing for him.
Indeed, faith is a gift from God. It is because we see faith as a gift from God, that our deeds are acts of thanksgiving and to glorify God.
Then our deeds would not be for selfish and self-glorifying motives.
We would not want to be hypocritical because we know that God sees everything and knows what is deep in our hearts.
Finally, when we see God face to face, there is no need to talk about the good we have done.
We just want to give thanks to God for our faith in Him.