Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary
Time - Mark 10:28-31
Today Peter responds to
Jesus’ statement to the young man in yesterday’s Gospel. Peter reminds
Jesus: “We have given up everything to follow to you”. Jesus tells
Peter that anyone who chooses to give up family, home, job or land for home,
job or land for His sake will receive a reward, a reward so great that this
individual will receive a hundred times more than she or he gave up! Now
that could be quite a reward depending on what you have given up!
Jesus is reminding his disciples that he desires
“their all.” He doesn’t want lukewarm disciples; rather, Jesus longs to
have followers who have a deep commitment to him and his ministry. And
this is what Jesus wants from each of us.
If we are deeply committed to Jesus and if we truly give our all, we
also will receive a hundred times more than we have given. What a promise!
However, it is not always
easy to “give our all” to Jesus. There are so many distractions as well as many
other attractions in our world. We can easily wander off from Jesus; hopefully,
we also wish to belong wholeheartedly to Jesus. What will we choose
today? No one else can choose the path for us. Only we can make
this decision. And it is a decision that we need to make each and every
day. Today what will I decide? What will you decide? Will we follow
Jesus today, even if the cost seems great? I pray we will!