Thursday of week 26 in Ordinary Time

Real joy

Luke 10:1-12

What is basically the difference between worldly joy and the spiritual joy?  What is the joy of a love tandem promoted by mass media and the joy of serving God?

I am proposing five differences for those who are filled with spiritual joy vs. those with worldly joy:

1. Eternal vs. temporary
2. no money can buy vs. joy bought by money
3. we end up givers vs. joy only in receiving
4. nobody is found wanting vs. only a few are filled with many are hungry

The main difference is spiritual joy brings life while world joy bring death.

Applying this in today's gospel, normally we would not succumb to going to neighbors and knocking at their doors and preaching the good news.  We would opt to stay at home and mind our own business.

But count the days and the years of planting and not planting the seed of the Good News.

The ones who planted the seeds of the Good News would find their community fruitful while those who minded their own businesses will yield a degenerated community.

We will be measured by what we plant in our lifetime.

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