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JMJ
"Then Judas Iscariot—one of his
disciples, the man who was to betray him—said, ‘Why was this ointment not sold
for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?’ He said this, not
because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he was in charge
of the common fund and used to help himself to the contents." (John
12.4-6)
These days a question was constantly
running through my mind: “When the Lord of Heaven and earth came into this
world, why did He choose a person like Judas (whom He knew was dishonest) to
entrust money?” I was pondering over this question for the last one week or so.
Just two days back, while I was
reciting a Rosary, some thoughts flashed through my mind: It seems that the
Lord would have wanted to entrust Judas with money “that tainted thing” (Luke
16:9) to give him an opportunity to be faithful with it so that He could be
trusted with true riches.
“Anyone who is trustworthy in little things
is trustworthy in great; anyone who is dishonest in little things is dishonest
in great. If then you are not trustworthy with money, that tainted thing, who
will trust you with genuine riches? And if you are not trustworthy with what is
not yours, who will give you what is your very own? ‘No servant can be the
slave of two masters: he will either hate the first and love the second, or be
attached to the first and despise the second. You cannot be the slave both of
God and of money.’" (Luke 16:10-13)
This calls for us to be trustworthy and
faithful in administering wealth and temporal things, whether it be money,
praise (referring all the praise to God), reparation of sins committed so that we
will be trusted with lasting things and true treasures by God.
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