You are worth more than many sparrows.---Jesus
Jesus spoke often about hell. In fact, He spoke as much about hell as anything else. Just before He said these comforting words about us being worth more than sparrows, He had said to fear only the one who can not only kill the body, but can also send the soul to hell. He was serious when it came to the soul of a man. Are we serious enough when it comes to our own souls and those around us? We have been given much and much is required. It is so easy to become lazy and satisfied with our lives, but there lies the trouble, these lives are not our own! St. Paul says that we have been bought with the precious blood of the Lamb. We no longer live the grasping life, we now live the 'give it away' life! We are new creatures. Zacchaeus is the great example of this. He went from hoarding everything he could to giving back everything he had taken, and then some. Conversion always does this to us. It causes us to give. This is the spiritual life, whenever God gives us something, we immediately give it away! When Pope John Paul 2 was a young priest and someone would give him money as a gift, he would immediately give it away.
Lord, have mercy on us!
wkm
Zacchaeus (Greek Ζακχαῖος, Hebrew זכי, which means pure [1]) was a superintendent of customs; a chief tax-gatherer (Latin:
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