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.
When I do consulting jobs, my first
question is “what is your budget” for this project. When someone tries to employ me, the first
thing that comes into my mind is “that the pay should be better than what I get
now”.
The Lord could have done the same during His public
ministry. Asking for money in exchange
for some miracles.
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 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.
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 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.
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