Leave Your Riches, Grant His Wishes
“If you wish to be perfect, go
sell what you own and give the money to the poor,
and you will have treasure in
Heaven; then come follow me.”
Living a religious
life can be quite challenging. Full of prayers, work and most of all…
sacrifices. For those who wish to enter the religious life, they must have the
greatest endurance-physical, mental and spiritual. It is giving your whole self
to the Supreme Being who is behind all these things.
When I first told my
friends that I’m entering the seminary, they were a little bothered because
they had seen me grow up with them in a world full of pleasures and leisure in
life. They did not expect that I, being one of them, would choose this kind of
life. I came from a rich family. And by that I meant rich in LOVE and PRAYERS.
My parents are both working in order for them to provide us with what we need
and what we want. There is just one person who really do not want me to
continue priesthood and that is my grandfather. I understand that being the
eldest among their grandchildren, I am expected to support our clan’s wealth and
they wanted me to become a lawyer.
For me, worldly
pleasures are temporary sources of happiness. We often forget that the One
above has provided us the purpose of being happy since the time we were
delivered in this world. We should be ready to leave all our wealth and riches
if we want to follow God. In the Gospel, the rich young man had been very
obedient with the Commandments but he wasn’t ready to leave his wealth behind.
This is the problem to most of us these days. We have been clinging to the
wrong master. These are just bills and coins but they sometimes can own our
souls. If we believe that God will always provide us what we need, He will
always be there for us. I know that He will not leave us being poor if we are
doing our part in this world. Make life simple.
If we really are ready
to offer our lives to the Lord, we should forget the worldly pleasures starting
now. We are living the life of a religious. I know that it is hard but life
really is like that. We can never have the best of both worlds. You can never
be a priest and at the same time a president of a company. The best company to
have is the company with Christ and that will make us a team with Him having
the treasures of the church-the faithful. What should triumph is the
contentment in our hearts. And this will make us all happy.
If only we can hear
Christ speak to us directly, probably He will say in Filipino: “Halika, sumama ka sa akin, wala kang ibang
kakailanganin at walang ibang proproblemahin.”
How contented are you? How are
you willing to give up everything to follow Him?
I, _______________, am contented,
willing to give up everything just to follow Him.
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