| Monday, April 6, 2009 Monday of Holy Week | ||
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John 12:8 The poor you always have with you, but you do not always have me."
Jesus has a way of getting right to the truth of the matter. Judas wasn’t really concerned with the poor. He wanted the money. How many of us are really concerned with helping people rather than helping ourselves? Not just with money, but socially and personally. How many of us get more satisfaction that we helped than we do that the people are truly helped by us? I would argue that much of what we do doesn’t really help in the long run. We still have the poor, and Jesus says that we will always have the poor. So the question is what are we doing about Jesus? Will we always have him? Maybe we think that in helping the poor we are in fact worshiping Jesus, and I agree with that to an extent. But I think that Jesus here is getting more at our true motives and I think we need to be honest with ourselves about what our true motives are. Not that we stop helping the poor, but so that we can truly help them in a way that really matters to them more than to us.
Father, help me by your Holy Spirit to be able to get out of this self serving mode that I am in. Help me to see what is truly needed and what is true justice and then help me to be merciful as you are merciful.
Amen
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