ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE FOR GOD

Wis 7,7-11; Ps 89; Heb 4,12-13; Mk 10,17-30
14 OCTOBER

Wealth in the thought of God and of Christ Jesus is not an end, but only a means. It is a means to love according to truth the Creator and Lord of man and also every other man. If it is only a means to love, it must be abandoned when the Lord gives man a greater, more sublime and higher means of loving Him according to his heart, his will, his desires and according to his will, his heart and his desires to love every other man. When man renounces a means indicated to him by God to love according to most pure truth because he has transformed the means into an end, it is then that wealth and every other means hinder or even prevent eternal salvation. No human means can be transformed into an end. If this happens, the hole to sink into idolatry is always before us. Even man, from the end, is transformed into a means. A means at the service of our greed and voracity.

This happens because only God is the source of wisdom, intelligence, truth and light so that we remain in respect of every true purpose given to our person. When we make of a means – even spiritual – the end of our life God Himself is also downgraded to a means. What are the fruits of this downgrading? The non possibility for Him to pour upon us all his gifts, with which alone it is possible for us to reach the true end. God, downgraded to a means, will never be placed at the service of our false and phony purposes. He, true end, primary and ultimate end, natural and supernatural end, historical end and eternal end, will never support our transformed means as the end of the personal life. He lavishes the grace, truth, intelligence, wisdom and every other celestial gift so that the end is reached by man. If we have transformed the means into an end, He withdraws his gifts and man finds himself in the confusion and in the spiritual and material chaos. For this reason Jesus says that a rich man will hardly enter the kingdom of heaven. The kingdom is no longer the end of his life. End of his life are the means, it is wealth. Serving wealth does not save. It does not lead into the eternal kingdom. It immerses in the matter.

As he was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt down before him, and asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus answered him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. You know the commandments: ‘You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; you shall not defraud; honour your father and your mother.'” He replied and said to him, “Teacher, all of these I have observed from my youth.” Jesus, looking at him, loved him and said to him, “You are lacking in one thing. Go, sell what you have, and give to (the) poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.” At that statement his face fell, and he went away sad, for he had many possessions.

Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!” The disciples were amazed at his words. So Jesus again said to them in reply, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to pass through (the) eye of (a) needle than for one who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.” They were exceedingly astonished and said among themselves, “Then who can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “For human beings it is impossible, but not for God. All things are possible for God.” Peter began to say to him, “We have given up everything and followed you.” Jesus said, “Amen, I say to you, there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake and for the sake of the gospel who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age: houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come.

Jesus does not close the door of his kingdom to any man that has transformed the means in the end. But conversion is urgent. What is the conversion for a rich person? Giving back to the end its dignity of an end. Giving back to means the value of means. Abandoning all means, if the Lord gives us another means for achieving the end, for us and for others.

Mother of God, Angels and Saints ensure that every man never transforms means into the end of life.