2 Chronicles 24:17-25 / Matthew 6:24-34
The most important things in life are not about things.
Things come and go, and we use things as long as we need them.
The most important things in life are people and our relationships with them.
It is in our relationships with others that we know what life is about.
And it is also in our relationship with others that we come to know ourselves better.
In the 1st reading, the new king Joash forgot about the kindness the previous priest Jehoiada had shown him.
King Joash preferred to listen to the court officials and even killed Zechariah, the son of Jehoiada, who was sent by God to warn him to repent.
And being forgetful of the kindness, and for being ungrateful, king Joash suffered terrible consequences.
In the gospel, Jesus reminded us of who should be the master of our lives.
When we remember with gratitude the loving providence of God for us, then we would certainly know who we should turn to as our Lord and Master.
And our relationship with God should also be reflected in our relationship with others.
That would be the most important in this life, as well as in the next.