Unto Me

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.---St. Ignatius of Loyola

 

I hope our New Year's resolutions are not about us this year. I hope they are about losing our lives for His sake, instead of losing weight. I hope we can make them about the Theo-Drama and not the ego-drama. What if we make this new year the year of giving? What if we decide, by grace, to make it our goal to have less stuff and money by this time next year than we have today? What if we try the impossible, to outgive God in the new year? It would be scary at times. It would require courage, a little recklessness, and Holy reason; and, it would require a faith we may not truly understand at the moment. Money and stuff hits home. Jesus said we cannot serve God and mammon, for we "would hate one and love the other." Which one do we love today? This could be the greatest and most exciting year of our little lives if we surrender them to Jesus and to those around us with need. He said, "When you do it to the least of these, you do it unto Me." What if we made this new year the year of "Unto Me"?

 

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