On a Slippery Ground
Thursday, 7th week in Ordinary Time
Jam 5: 1-6; Mk 9: 41-50
Where your treasures are, there your heart will be, Jesus warned us well. The Word today insists that our treasures cannot be in our money bags or safety lockers! Wealth, of course is a blessing, the same can become a curse too, if it is not kept in its place!
At times, unfortunately not merely at times but very often today, we see that persons with money are able to get what they want without much ado! Even the judicial system lets them roam free despite their wrongdoings, merely because they have the money-power! Persons think they have everything when they have the money...but for how long? Is that money going to take us all the way? By the time we realise we have over-depended on the wealth that we possess, we would be in a position already when we would not be able to undo our past mistakes! It is high time we understand that, placing our entire confidence on the wealth would make us tread on a slippery ground.