BUT ... .. Is it worth it??
Mt 19.16-22 Mk 10, 17-22 Lk 18.18-23
A man approaches Jesus arrives in Jerusalem, and asks the question "What do I do to inherit eternal life? ".
It appears, therefore, as a person concerned about the "doing". Behind this question lies a certain person of their own means, which has to be able to "conquer" the eternal life with their ingenuity. To "own": the verb indicates the pretense of buying, to conquer and then to have secure, life. You feel in control. Already has his plans and wants to be confirmed.
answer Jesus corrects the statement: "If thou wilt enter into life keep the commandments." Life is offered to us by God, so it is to be welcomed as a gift, not to conquer and possess.
The young face of claims of Jesus, and made you feel, sometimes, almsgiving and other pious practices. Not satisfied, ends up getting into trouble, "What lack I yet?".
Now Jesus can ask the leap, the person who is hungry for something more: "If thou wilt be perfect" throw your life away. Do not try to possess it, storing it for you. The lose. How and why throw it all away? "You will have treasure in heaven."
"Having heard the word, the young man went away sad." This young man, too attached to his things, his world, his habits, his image in front of others, can not bring himself to leave everything and to trust the word of Jesus "If he goes sad." Why? Because it was discovered slave of things, and judged by others, because it recognizes to be possessed by so many things that can not give up. She knows not to be authentic, not to be true.
Maybe hear Jesus say: "I understand you and respect you, because you want to do great things in life, you are not happy, you want more, it is a good thing, but for now you can not do otherwise, because your treasure is there and you can not change, by itself, the place where your treasure. "
Seeking Freedom! Free to love!
Let's keep in mind: free men are men bound. Free men are the men who have freed themselves from slavery to some bind to something, someone. Freedom is in membership. Never forget, the free man is not disconnected from everything, that's just a poor man, carried by the wind. The man should hang.
Freedom, says the Gospel of John, is the result of Truth binds you to the truth, obey the truth. St. Paul says that freedom is slavery in love. So you must have an ideal to which belong: cercatevelo this ideal!
not enough to free themselves from slavery! Ultimately, it is easy to get rid of slavery, the harder it is to manage freedom: once you have conquered the need to orient, to submit something.
If you want to make career compromises, but if you tell the truth, feel the joy. The world is a liar, but you must have courage, the courage of truth. There are too many opportunists, racks. For the triumph of the Kingdom of God is thinking about him, with his Truth. However, this road is really the way of life is a hundredfold. You left out your hypocrisy, your insecurities .... but you a hundredfold!
How to be sure? Try it, you risk! Do not want to risk? Patience, do not expect a hundredfold, do not complain if your life is empty. If only the fill of junk, you just junk, if based on the power do not complain when it is not.
But which way? It 'requires a decision, it is a way insecure, discouraged by parents who frustrate the search for security up to frustration.
"Jesus looked at him and loved him look" (Mark 10:21)
With his eyes Jesus says: " I love you, I'm worried about you, about you awake, you lose all your misery. I know all your riches, which are many, but with all the power of my being, my eyes and my heart enfold you. " But the young man believed in the eyes of Jesus
Telling someone "I love you", means become very vulnerable. That is the language of love is so fragile. We proceed step by step, without haste, because the other has no fear. Love means slowly tamed. But Jesus immediately in this state of vulnerability. When you love you get very poor, very small, since it can be injured if the other does not accept the communion that we want to offer. So Jesus did: he offers something of value, its intimacy, so hard that you need more. But the rich young man has escaped the eyes of Jesus, who offered him a treasure.
Love is defeated, but you can live a love stronger than defeat: this is very nice, but is a risk. Sure, love can be frightening. Loving you attach to a person and if he betrays me, is not? So you're afraid, you open yourself up instead of close and it's like to die. The fear of love is fear of death, because you risk everything themselves, with a definitive certainty sometimes no way out. Life triumphs over death, love conquers death.
But Jesus invites others to follow by dropping all that was only the introduction to life and fullness of life. What are you to now what you did the other parents, educators, friends ..... and so on. Now, if you want your life fully appropriate and record the values \u200b\u200bthat count forever and absolutely, creating, sure, leave everything, give thanks and come with me.
A hug too tight. So it is too! "I had no intention to make a leap like that. I thought you kept the speech of my parents, my teachers ..... you care about my well ..... Why give up everything! We can not come to an agreement: to have a life of value without giving up anything. I like your word is for me one of the many rich ....".
The call of Jesus is the yardstick to measure the goodness of my journey that has allowed me to come to Him must change perspective. At the end Jesus will say what needs to happen: everything is possible with God The jump Quality is determined by the overcoming of that leadership and that sense of sufficiency, which has allowed me to go to him alone but does not allow me to go with him. After searching, called "good" you make me willing to let me fix, make, love, call.
... ... But it's worth it?
my life can not be a question, has become an answer!
Don Tonino Bello
We can also ask how often Jesus told us, with true faith and trust, but the answer we will change your life depends only on our freedom. It 's our way of life.
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