FAITHFUL- to God and to Humanity
Tuesday, 9th week in Ordinary Time
Tob 2:9-15; Mk 12:13-17
To God and to humanity... it's a splendid guideline that Jesus gives us today! A religious or pious practice that does not have this dual framework, will be either too removed from reality or too simplistic to be considered spiritual.
In the first reading today we hear of Tobit who lost his sight but never complained against God. The same person who was so faithful to his God, did not have an open mind towards his wife! His judgemental attitude towards his wife, to a great extent, negates the goodness he practiced towards God. His wife does not stop from pointing it out to him. He needed that reminder to be truly a person of God.
Jesus communicates the same in the gospel as he reminds us to give to God what belongs to God and to the world what belongs to the world. We need our spiritual eyes open to find out truly what to give the Lord and what to give the world. The right balance is the faithfulness we are speaking of- faithfulness to God and to humanity!
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