By: Rexelle Piad SR-E
What goes around, comes around. Thou shall not do unto your brother what you don’t want done unto you. Thou shall be rewarded a thousand fold. There are hundreds of sayings that revolve around how our actions always have consequences, and though know and understand these sayings, we don’t really take it to heart. The gospel was about Lazarus and the rich man. Lazarus spent his years with nothing to his name, yet when he died he was accepted into the kingdom of heaven. The rich man, on the other hand, had everything he could possibly desire yet when he died, he had nothing. Though the rich man tried to repent his sins in order to enter the gates of heaven, he was refused.
We live in a material world. We study in order to get a good job. We work in order to get money. We need money in order to put food on our tables and put clothes on our backs. We’re meticulous about what we wear. We seek the newest technologies or electronic gadgets. We live in a world where money dictates how we live our lives. This gospel, in my opinion, has the capacity to reel back in what’s truly important in our lives. Money isn’t everything. Material things aren’t everything.
From dust and to dust we shall return.
At one point or another, we will have to leave the world we live in to be with our Creator, and we can’t bring all our material possessions with us. God will not judge you for what house you live in, what car you drive, how much money you make. God looks at how pure our hearts are.
We have to be more conscious of what we do and how we treat other people. We have to stop being blinded by the consumerism around us and remember what is truly important in our lives: our family, our friends, our morals, and our God.
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