SHARING IS EVERYTHING
Mark 10:21-25: Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said, "You lack one thing; go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me." When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving, for he had many possessions. Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!" And the disciples were perplexed at these words. But Jesus said to them again, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."
Dear People, we used to run after our vanities, desires and false dreams, as some crave also human glory, influence and power, often through wars and temporary conquers, but we have to give them up all. Let us submit ourselves to God's will.
Submission to God is humbleness. What is God's will, it is not a puzzle at all, because his will is public for all. It is clear like Day Light. God's will is Charity, Goodness, Providence, Gentleness, Compassion, Mercy, Family, and Friendship, Brotherhood and Sisterhood of humanity, sharing all things, cooperation in all things.
We have a promise that these values will conquer and occupy the whole world at the very end. Until that time often we shall become a humble David against not only one but hosts of Goliaths. We just can not stay idle when our fellow beings are in danger or enslaved.
There is only one thing which is capable to make us humble and strong in the same time: This is the power of the love of God given by Faith to the faithful in Christ Jesus to whom be glory and praise forever.
Amazingly, the power of the Love of God, has been channeled to us by thanksgiving, which means feeling grateful to God. As longer I am able to maintain the feeling of being grateful to God, as greater is the power of the Love GOD in my heart, which makes me more able to give proper thanks to God, which is a heavenly circle, or circuit, as it is the main energy supply we use, or we should use.
God does not need anything, not even our sacrifices, our prayers and our thanksgivings. It is clear from the scriptures, that we cannot do anything for God, meanwhile God gives everything to us, including life and all necessities. In order to show the minimum reverence to God, we have to share everything on Earth. We must show our faith and love to God from our deeds and sharing on Earth.
Some scholars assert, that many constitutions and laws were established in the human society only to defend and preserve the possessors' right to possess their wealth. Rules and regulations organize a society around the production of the national wealth and the dividing of the national wealth, usually unjustly. The economic laws and even the taxes are the method of sharing or excluding from the wealth, usually the majority of a society. As the slogan says, the rich get always richer, the poor get always poorer.
Somehow almost always, like gravitation, the greatest share of national wealth slips into the hands of the violent bullies and of the shrewd frauds from the hands of the working and producing people. It happened in Mesopotamia, in Egypt, in Persia, in Greece, in Rome, almost everywhere on Earth. The imminent greed cultivated by law in a society always culminates in conquer, colonization, periods of wars, returning circles of bloody fights, local, continental and world wars. Our Lord says, this is the way of the world, we know it well, but it shall not be yours.The rule of the Gospel differs from the world, and Jesus as King differs from all of the other rulers as it is written, but paraphrased into the maxima that:
‘The Son of the Man came not to rule but to serve.’
Among us we could have done it long ago, thus still we have to create an alternative, let us say, a really Christian Way of Life on Earth according to the Gospel, having Christian methods for the management of conflicts, a Christian economy, Christian Self Defense, because the Lord says that our ways and methods should differ from the methods of the wicked and the greedy world.
Thus, we need Christian companies, Christian farms, similar the Kibbutzes in Israel. We should create Christian communities with common ownership of the land, of the natural resources, of the forests and waters, as it was the law in the best parts of America before the conquest.
We should establish Christian firms, companies aiming real and creative production, paying fair wages, conducting fair trade, having profit sharing packages for workers, using the power of cooperation rather than competition, working for the nutrition of our children and for the poor of the countries.
We need Christian banks and credit unions for lending money to the needy without interest rates. We need Christian media independent from the politics, the pundits and tycoons.
We need real Christian legislation to ensure that the Gospel rules.
We should show working ways of the real Christianity, in which we should share all of the resources we have, share the workload which should be done, and share the wealth according to our rule, which is the Gospel, and according to our ruler that is King Jesus Christ, in order the eradicate poverty at once and for all. The Rule of the Gospel is the end of all oppression.
Since the history of this civilization in the enslaved societies we lived and we live as separated units, individualized and divided, and this is the old trick of the tyrants. Divide and impera. In the artificially created world of greedy competition, people act as enemies, opponents, competitors to each other, or at least like contestants in a cruel and permanent war for bread and gold, or maybe roof and beer, influence and power.
The Christian way differs. It must differ. We believe that we are brothers and sisters in Christ. The congregation shall act as a family, and the world Christianity shall act as an extended family, as we are all children of one Creator God.
Imagine the cope of Christianity which is on paper the biggest religion on Earth, having 2.4 billions of followers. We should have changed the World for the better long time ago.
Regarding mere numbers we could have easily done it, or we still could do it. Normally in a family, even in an extended family, we do not fight or kill each other. In a family, if someone is hungry we do not ask whether you have money or not, yet we share the food, roof, even money, because the family is the community of true and organic love.
As the Lord says in the Gospel of John: “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
We have to live according to our call to amend this world, by Faith and Grace, in order to inherit the World to come. AMEN.
