Monday, October 6, 2014

On Possession

Last Saturday we had a household prayer meeting and we had a teaching on meditation and contemplation. Our household head lead us into contemplation on Mark 10:170-3 about Jesus encounter with a rich man. The rich man asked what he could do to inherit eternal life, to which Jesus answered by enumerating the commandments. He told Jesus that he had done all those things. Jesus then said, “There is still one thing you haven’t done. Go and sell all your possessions and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

Our Household Head challenged us to go into the story and imagine that we were the rich man. What would I feel upon hearing that words from Jesus? In my contemplation I thought, I don’t have any valuable possessions, but then as I went deeper I realized what became my possession. It was my mission. I was actually afraid to let go and lose it.

That was very good and timely reminder for me to have a healthy detachment with what I am doing. Mission should not be my possession, Jesus should be. If it is my possession, it will be very hard for me to let go if Jesus will tell me so. Jesus should be my possession, so that as I possess Him, mission becomes but a consequence of Jesus possessing me.

We can never really hold on too much on things and people, in the end everything fades away except God and His love for us. So if we anchor ourselves in God, the way we value others becomes fruitful and meaningful.

Lord, always remind me that you are my greatest possession, so that when other things are taken away from me, I will not be that sad because they are not the greatest but you. Amen.

by aats


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