Catholic reflections, By Ryan Pinto

 

(14 year old inspired by God powerfully)

 

TOPIC: Jealousy

Dear brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ,

Jealously has become a biggest crisis in our lives it is a deadly mortal sin that effects our spiritual and also physical life. The reason behind why jealously has become a burden in our life is that there is no satisfaction in what is provided to us by God but there is excessive greediness of acquiring more than what is required.

 

The problem behind it is that we are greedy and selfish and because of that we try to cast our eyes on others belongings. Another important thing is that now a day’s interference in useless matters has become a habit and routine in most of our life and we try to put our mind and heart in this evil world and because of this we regret afterwards once we suffer terribly.

Dear brothers and sisters Gods message for us today is that God wants us to be humble and not jealous because we have to be satisfied with what we have and not move over the limit of what is needed.

The most important matter in this topic we need to understand is that we have not come to this world to save money and become the richest but rather we have come to this world to save our soul from the fires of hell and earn Gods love in our life because nothing in this world is guaranteed but the judgement at the end of the day is guaranteed on the basis of how we live our life so to pas the judgement in peace we need to change our life style.

We also need to understand that we have a lot of desires in our life but all of it cannot be fulfilled, some might be fulfilled, some might be fulfilled later or some may not be fulfilled due to some other plans bestowed by God on us.

In our daily life if we are not able to correct ourselves and live properly but rather we are interested in the welfare of others life and that is why jealously comes because of the eagerness to possess the belongings of others.

Stubbornness has become too much in our lives that is the main reason we are jealous about others blessing and not working hard for our blessings. In the bible we see in the book of Genesis that when Cain and Abel offered their offerings to the Lord, the Lord accepted Abel’s offering and did not regard Cains offering so in anger and jealously Cain killed his brother Abel.

Now dear brothers and sisters what do we understand in this context we need to know that God did not accept Cains offering for a reason and the reason is that God wanted to test him but eventually Cain failed to pass the test and killed his brother Abel. Jealously is a big and deadly sin that combines many other sins like anger, gossiping, murder. Murder has become a big and dreadful matter now days because of jealously. The thing is we desire too much for wealth and riches which will fade away once we die but the desire to do good will be missing in our lives.

 

So dear brothers and sisters let us not desire to live like this evil world but rather let us have the urging desire to serve God and lead a holy life. we need to acknowledge that we should be satisfied and happy with what we have and then only God will bless us with more if required because we can see the same thing in the bible when Jesus told us the parable of talents that in which a master entrusted the slave with talent with the first he gave five talents and to the second two talents and to the third he gave one. Two of the slaves worked hard and multiplied the talents but the slave that was given one talent was lazy and jealous because he was given less than all the other slaves and that is why the because of his foolishness he was punished terribly.

So dear brothers and sister we should be fit in our spiritual life and alert always because temptations and tests come in different forms which we will not know if we don’t change our life today otherwise when the test comes we will face it usually by failing in it because of living in evil. So let not be jealous and greedy but let us be humble and loving with everyone around us and we will understand the call of God and become Gods servants in the accordance of serving Him with joyful hearts. Amen.