Friday of week 11 in Ordinary Time, year 1

What to boast about

Matthew 6:19-23


St. Paul, even when he is away, continues to catechize the Christian Community at Corinth.  He exhorts them about boastfulness because of corruption creeping in among the Corinthians.

The gospel also enlightens us on what to boast about.  Most often, we boast about what we have - money, power, or even loved ones and their accomplishments.  But Jesus reminds us that moths will eat them up.

Do we treat our lives as matters for the moths to eat up?  Search for transcendence in this world.  A parent who foregoes becoming reach in order to teach his/ her child to give more attention to spiritual things is surely building up the Kingdom of Heaven in the very heart of the child.  We are teaching the child the real value of everlasting life and what we should really be doing on earth.

Secondly, Jesus is teaching us not to be blinded by these things on earth.  Open up to the real joys of heaven.

Finally, if there is anything to boast about, it is our nothingness before God.  Scripture says, "It is when I am weak when I am strong."  God is my strength.

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