Tuesday 29th May, 2012
1 Peter 1:10-16. The Lord has made known his salvation—Ps 97(98):1-4. Mark 10:28-31.

  
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You will receive eternal life in the world to come.

‘What’s in it for me?’ is the principal criterion of those who pass all choices through the prism of self-interest. We can still sympathise with the human request of Peter who, as a follower of Jesus, looks for a return on his investment. He had yet to learn that goodness is its own reward or that ‘we should be good for nothing’. This is a lesson that we too must learn.

It has been said that to offer God less than everything is to settle for less than God. As all we are is the gift of one who loves us unconditionally, we have nothing of our own to offer God but our consent to be loved.