God sees and provides (6.24 to 34 Mt)
E 'is an old saying that does not even know if it is known today, but I remember that my thick, especially the pronounced in the most difficult. Then came the progress and the progress and welfare with the welfare of the feeling that he no longer needs God But the truth is that man has everything and yet still in need of God's Gospel today leads to reflect on a fundamental question: is more important than God or wealth? The answer to this question is crucial in relation to the way in which his own life. If God is first and most important, obviously we will try to steer everything towards him, but if you believe that wealth is to have the record, life will be oriented quite differently. Jesus, as usual, helps us to reason with simple drawing on experience that is visible to all: "Look at the birds of the sky ... Look how the lilies of the field ..." Now, if God does not miss anything the birds of the sky and the lilies of the field, as not abandon the men who are his creatures. From this picture emerges an image of God as Father who lovingly closely and there is, with its providential intervention, to set us free from all anxiety and distressing concern, does not feel orphans abandoned to ourselves, but loved and searched for. The call of Jesus is loud and clear: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness ..." All the rest is just after, because "Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need." This is the choice 'priority' of the Kingdom of God, a little 'how to organize the day when we decide to do first one thing then another and then another time if you forward again, with the only difference that here we are basic orientation in front of a lifetime. But Jesus wants us to reflect also on risk and damage caused by the idolatry of wealth and riches. When the welfare and wealth become 'idols', then God is set aside and considered useless and you have the illusion of having everything under its control. Of course, God is an alternative to the wealth: "You can not serve God and wealth", ie, in the sense that at the end of our lives we do not find wealth or meet God or anything. But, "to serve God in this life, does not mean that you will not have to do with wealth, but rather use their own individual wealth for the common good. The rich man is not condemned as it is rich, but because they neglect and despise the poor man Lazarus. In different parts of the Gospel, Jesus says that wealth is good, but it becomes destructive and dangerous when you go off the common good, when you chase only for his own personal gain.
E 'is an old saying that does not even know if it is known today, but I remember that my thick, especially the pronounced in the most difficult. Then came the progress and the progress and welfare with the welfare of the feeling that he no longer needs God But the truth is that man has everything and yet still in need of God's Gospel today leads to reflect on a fundamental question: is more important than God or wealth? The answer to this question is crucial in relation to the way in which his own life. If God is first and most important, obviously we will try to steer everything towards him, but if you believe that wealth is to have the record, life will be oriented quite differently. Jesus, as usual, helps us to reason with simple drawing on experience that is visible to all: "Look at the birds of the sky ... Look how the lilies of the field ..." Now, if God does not miss anything the birds of the sky and the lilies of the field, as not abandon the men who are his creatures. From this picture emerges an image of God as Father who lovingly closely and there is, with its providential intervention, to set us free from all anxiety and distressing concern, does not feel orphans abandoned to ourselves, but loved and searched for. The call of Jesus is loud and clear: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness ..." All the rest is just after, because "Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need." This is the choice 'priority' of the Kingdom of God, a little 'how to organize the day when we decide to do first one thing then another and then another time if you forward again, with the only difference that here we are basic orientation in front of a lifetime. But Jesus wants us to reflect also on risk and damage caused by the idolatry of wealth and riches. When the welfare and wealth become 'idols', then God is set aside and considered useless and you have the illusion of having everything under its control. Of course, God is an alternative to the wealth: "You can not serve God and wealth", ie, in the sense that at the end of our lives we do not find wealth or meet God or anything. But, "to serve God in this life, does not mean that you will not have to do with wealth, but rather use their own individual wealth for the common good. The rich man is not condemned as it is rich, but because they neglect and despise the poor man Lazarus. In different parts of the Gospel, Jesus says that wealth is good, but it becomes destructive and dangerous when you go off the common good, when you chase only for his own personal gain.
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