In Luke’s Gospel today, we hear that Jesus
presents a list of four blessings for those who depend on God and believe in
Him. Jesus classifies those who are poor, hungry, weeping, and persecuted as
blessed because of the kind reward that they will receive in His kingdom. God
really loves them and gives them blessings because they trust in God and depend
on Him. Accordingly, if we
want to be classified as blessed people in the Kingdom of God, we must truly
believe in God and depend on Him.
Many people think that they will be happy
if they possess a lot of money, position, good food, a beautiful
girlfriend or handsome boyfriend, etc. But, all those things don’t lead them to real happiness, because they don’t come to the source of true happiness.
And the source of true happiness is God Himself.
Today Jesus gives very good advice for us.
If we want to be happy and blessed in the Kingdom of
God, we must truly believe in God and depend on Him. Don’t think that material
things and wealth will give us true happiness. Yes, it can make us joyful. However, without God, we will lose everything. We should find
God first, the source of true happiness and then we can get other things. Thus, we will get the earthly wealth and achieve the heavenly treasure too. We will
be happy in this life and in the life to come.
By Fr. Risco Batbual, SVD.
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