1 Cor 7:25-31 / Luke 6:20-26
This world, undeniably, has its attractions and delights.
For those who seek it, and can afford it, the desire for pleasure and luxury has almost no limits.
We would have loved to enjoy all the good things of this world and not think too much about the future.
And then in the first reading, St. Paul tells us of this grim reminder.
He says, “Our time is growing short. I say this because the world as we know it is passing away.”
He said that for his time, but it is a fact for every age in history, and it is a fact for us in this modern age.
We can become too engrossed with the attractions, delights and pleasures of this world that we forget what is temporal and what is eternal.
In the gospel, Jesus gave a teaching that makes us stop and think deeper about life.
We want to be happy in life but Jesus gives us a glimpse of eternal happiness which goes against the world’s view of happiness.
Those who are poor will be blessed, those who hungry will be satisfied and those who weep will rejoice.
Those are eternal blessings.
It is only when we look away from the attractions, the delights and the pleasures of this world, that we will understand and inherit the eternal blessings that God wants to give us.