PRICELESS!

Matthew 10:8
Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.
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Some of you may have seen these ads from Mastercard. It would show you some spending done by the person (like a night in a hotel… $120, a bottle of wine…$150, dinner for two… $200). Then, it would cap it off with what those spending would really mean to him or his loved ones (getting her nod to marry you… PRICELESS!).

The Lord could have done the same during His public ministry. Imagine this:
Healing leprosy… 100 dinari
Making you see again… 200 dinari
Making a dead alive… 1,000 dinari
Multiplication of loaves… 50 dinari
But, salvation and eternal life… PRICELESS!

But this was not the case. This is not what He taught to His disciples. Rather, Jesus gives his apostles a lesson about what is priceless - SERVING: Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give. He gives us all and has come to take nothing away from us. Indeed, the Lord gained nothing in redeeming us; but rather spent Himself completely.

So the challenge is to give away what you’ve received. Don’t worry about what it is, or how much you have, or how it stacks up against what anyone else has received. Just give it away! It is really hard to do, for we are all attached to these material things. But always remember that we were born with nothing and that we shall leave this earthly world with nothing. But in giving, we will gain heaven – that is everything! That is, PRICELESS!

Let us pray +

Almighty Father, in Your infinite riches, You have given me everything I have. Show me today how and where to give it away. I believe that even as I do, You will fill me with more and more.

Amen +

Blessed are all who wait for the Lord.