The Gospel of Luke 9:57-62
The Cost of Following Jesus
As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.
Jesus replied, Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.
He said to another man, “Follow me.”
But he replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”
Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and say goodbye to my family.”
Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”
The Word of the Lord.
The first of all.
The first commandment is to love God above all things. I believe that if this is fulfilled, all the others are fulfilled. If God is truly my priority, wouldn’t I stop thinking about myself? Wouldn’t I be fully assisted by the gift of Piety from the Holy Spirit? And therefore, wouldn’t my husband also be my priority after God?
If God is my priority, He is also my priority in time, and He would be the first thing I attend to, before anything else I have to do, no matter how important it is. He would also be the first in my thoughts.
Applied to Married Life:
Jorge: Today I confessed a sin that I don’t usually confess.
Rocío: Which one? If I may ask, of course…
Jorge: Not loving God above all things.
Rocío: But you always say that God is the most important thing to you.
Jorge: Yes, but I’ve realized that sometimes I pray in a rush because I have many things to do. There are also long moments when I don’t think of Him. Additionally, another sign is that sometimes I do what I feel like doing before what you need me to do to feel loved, and you complain about that. If I truly loved God above all things, none of those three things would happen.
Rocío: Thank you, Jorge. You’ve given me a lot of clarity. I’m off! Be right back.
Jorge: Where are you going, Rocío?
Rocío: To confess that I haven’t loved God above all things.
Mother,
May the Lord truly be the first in our hearts. Praise be to the Lord.