Wednesday, July 7, 2021

14th Week, Ordinary Time, Thursday, 08-07-2021

Genesis 44:18-21, 23-29; 45:1-5 / Matthew 10:7-15   

We believe that God will always provide for us in whatever we need to go on with life.

Everything that we have is a gift from God and that is why we must always be thankful and grateful to God.

God loves us and cares for us and He only wants us to love Him and to serve Him by loving others.

But somehow along the way, we lose our focus on God and we turn to ourselves and we begin to want more than we need.

And that is when selfishness and greed creep in, and we may even use deceit and deception to get to what we want, and we only would want more and more.

In the gospel, when Jesus sent His disciples out to proclaim the kingdom of heaven, He told them to go without anything for the journey.

He told His disciples that the workman deserves his keep and that they received without charge, so they too should give without charge.

We know that we don't deserve anything, nor can we demand for anything, and that everything is a gift from God.

Let us always remember that and be thankful, and let us also believe that God will bless a thankful heart abundantly.