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Theo Tigno•
9/19/2003 8:01 am
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Friday, September 19th 2003 |
1 Timothy 6: 2c-12
Beloved: Teach and urge these things. Whoever teaches something different and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the religious teaching is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid disposition for arguments and verbal disputes. From these come envy, rivalry, insults, evil suspicions, and mutual friction among people with corrupted minds, who are deprived of the truth, supposing religion to be a means of gain. Indeed, religion with contentment is a great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, just as we shall not be able to take anything out of it. If we have food and clothing, we shall be content with that. Those who want to be rich are falling into temptation and into a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires, which plunge them into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all evils, and some people in their desire for it have strayed from the faith and have pierced themselves with many pains.
But you, man of God, avoid all this. Instead, pursue righteousness, devotion, faith, love, patience, and gentleness. Compete well for the faith. Lay hold of eternal life, to which you were called when you made the noble confession in the presence of many witnesses.
Dawg's thought:
Today's prayer intention is for the elderly, that they are treated with dignity.
If you desire to be perfect, desire only to be with God.
We pursue many things in order to build up our dignity. We desire riches, prestige, popularity and even self-inflicted suffering as a means to elevating who we are. There are two things that are disturbed with this: We fail to see ourselves in the true dignity we were created for and we fail to see others in the true dignity they were created for.
"Blessed are the pure of heart for they will see God." This beatitude speaks us on a variety of levels. The first is if you desire to see God, then you must be willing to purify your heart, dying to your own desires. Therefore, in order to die to yourself you must put all desires aside for the desire to see God. This beatitude works hand in hand on these two levels in order that we may learn obedience, for the person with many desires cannot be obedient to God.
In today's reading, we see St. Paul addressing St. Timothy, urging him to put things aside that pull us away from God. Today's reading is a challenge to each of you today to put aside all desires so that you may be perfect. Let us put aside all desires so that we may all see God face to face. Take care and God Bless.
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