Acts 4:32-37 / John 3:7-15
To be able to give up something, it must be for a higher and a noble cause.
We certainly would like to have our own possessions and our personal belongings.
Also, we have this innate feeling of insecurity and we can’t deny that having wealth and possessions will make us feel a bit more secure.
For the whole group of believers of the early Church, they were united heart and soul, and no one claimed for his own use anything that he had, as everything they owned was held in common.
That certainly sounds amazing, and furthermore, none of them was ever in want, even though they have all they possessed to the community.
That was only possible because there was one uniting factor, and that is their faith in the Risen Lord.
The Risen Lord not only provided for their needs, He also sent them the Holy Spirit.
It was the Holy Spirit that moved the disciples of the early Church to give up what was temporal for what is eternal.
May the Holy Spirit also move us to come out of our fears and to have our hope and security in the Risen Lord.