Are we sure we are asking God for the right things?


Sunday XVIII year C Lk 12,13-21

“Lord tell my brother to ...”. How many times we ask the Lord for justice because something of little importance, something material is not going as we would like it to go. In today’s gospel the Lord doesn’t seem to agree with that kind of justice, in fact most of the time we ask the Lord in that way we do not receive any answer and we have to work hard by ourselves to solve the problems. Why is that so? After all what we are asking for is something rightful.
The simple fact that often God does not answer to our prayers does not mean that what we ask for is something wrong in itself, nor does it mean that God has forgotten about us. He wants to teach us something important: “take care that material things do not become the most important in life, more important than the spiritual ones”. Food, house, career money are all important but cannot have more importance than things like family, friendship, justice, love. Even more these cannot be the only goal, the only focus in our life. The only important thing is to know Jesus Christ, love him and live in his presence.
The first reading clearly says: All is vanity; all passes and disappears, and all the hard work you did to achieve them becomes useless toil. It is much better a family united in a poor house than a family divided where one does not speak to the other, people do not meet and each one lives in his own house though beautiful and rich. It is better a family where people work together where they help each other, even though money are little, rather than a family where there is never time for meeting each other because everyone is busy with his own business and to make as much money as possible.
Saint Paul says: “So if you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth … Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: passion, evil desire, and greed” .
Jesus today tells us a parable which is a clear example of the wrong way of thinking people have. They concentrate only on business and believe that happiness comes from wealth. All of this is wrong and destined to finish soon.
Let us stop admiring successful people, rich ones and let us start admiring righteous people, people with strong moral principles. They could become the best example for us to follow which leads us to true welfare, for us and for the society at large. When we die we do not carry anything with us in the tomb and all our possessions are divided among other people who often even fight for them. Our good example and our righteous life, instead, become gift available for all, which does not create division and can be shared among all without any loss for anyone.

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