Sunday, July 29, 2012

$1,000,000

"Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee.A large crowd followed him,because they saw the signs he was performing on the sick.Jesus went up on the mountain,and there he sat down with his disciples.The Jewish feast of Passover was near.When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him,he said to Philip,"Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?"He said this to test him,because he himself knew what he was going to do.Philip answered him,"Two hundred days wages worth of food would not be enough for each of them to have a little.'"One of his disciples,Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said to him,"There is a boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish;but what good are these for so many?"
Jesus said, "Have the people recline."Now there was a great deal of grass in that place.So the men reclined,about five thousand in number.Then Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks,and distributed them to those who were reclining,and also as much of the fish as they wanted.When they had  their fill, he said to his disciples,"Gather the fragments left over,so that nothing will be wasted."So they collected them,and filled twelve wicker baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves that had been more than they could eat.When the people saw the sign he had done, they said,"This is truly the Prophet, the one who is to come into the world."Since Jesus knew that they were going to come and carry him off to make him king, he withdrew again to the mountain alone".(Jn 6:1-15) You may recognize this? its the readings from Mass today. I know I have often read this and just been like "wow that's awesome" but it has so much more! Jesus could have  just said the word "food" and poof there it is. But he didn't, he asked "Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?" and Philip was like um dude we don't have no money. Jesus wanted to see what the disciples would do. It's the same for us, Jesus has given us a gift and he is waiting to see what we are going to do with it. Think of it like this if I gave you $1,000,000 and you went out and bought an awesome car, a huge house,and married a super model, and I called you up and said "I am going to come visit" so you get everything ready and I come and we have a great time and I say as I am getting ready to leave "are you happy?"  You tell me yes and thank me a million times for giving you such an awesome gift and then I tell you that when I gave you that $1,000,000, on the same day I invested it in three different things and today it is worth triple what it was the day I gave it to you! Would you still be happy? Or would you ask me why I didn't tell you to invest it? If I told you what to do with your gift I would be using your gift, not mine. God gives us the choice to multiply our investments, we need to make the right choice and use our gifts for Gods greater glory, not ours. Our lives should be a reflection of Jesus's life and to do that we need to know how he lived. Read the gospels, know the word of God, pray daily that he will show you how to use your gifts to His greater glory, and give God your all, surrender all that you have and all that you are to Jesus. I know he is on our side and he won't let us down, he said "ask and you shall receive, seek and you will find."(Matt 7:7) Ask him, seek him with all that you are. God is all or nothing "No one can serve two masters...." (Matt 6:24)there is no world and God. If we are going to be followers of Christ we need to follow him all the way not just until the road gets rough ,but right into the line of fire! We need to lay down our lives so that Christ can live in us. In our society everything we want is right at our fingertips, in this fast paced world we need to remember that God is first and everything else second! Until next time may God bless you!!! 


Brian               

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