In Heaven, We Surrender All
By Chesca Cuisia
July 30, 2017
July 30, 2017
In one of the recently acclaimed indie films, it is not just in knowing but also through understanding certain people and their situation that we grow aware of what happens around us.
Here, in the film, we meet a beautiful family facing more than enough struggles to handle. Kaye, one of the characters, gets involved in a money scheme so she could support her child. Now, although this money making scheme seems to be promising in a sense that it gives back so much, it too has its negative side. This was easily seen with how the money making scheme came crumbling down with the death of Kaye’s father, who was Kaye’s influencer.
It was through money that one was able to commit something wrong. Having its negative effects too, we see how such a thing can get the best of us. But in today’s Gospel, we are called to reflect upon our wrongs and avoid committing future sins, for we shall be judged and be placed where we deserve to be. The Angels will come and "separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace." We ought to be more prudent about our actions, that we must think thoroughly about what is good and what is evil.
In our day and age, to sin has become, in a way, inevitable. But it is how we learn from it all that matters in the end, to develop ourselves into responsible and loving people of God. The Gospel says that a man who finds the Kingdom of Heaven surrenders everything to attain it. The merchant sells his belongings to attain a pearl like no other. The person who finds heaven under the soil sells everything and buys the land which heaven lies. This tells us that we, upon finding God and His Kingdom, surrender our lives into His hands. Holding our faith closer to our hearts, repeating the mantra and hymn to ourselves that God will indeed provide. And we should be cautious not to take this for granted, that even if he provides, we ought to give what we can. Effort works both ways and what we give will be given back to us by another. That's how God works, he acts through our hearts like instruments of goodness and righteousness, bringing out the love that is sleeping deep inside us.
Let us always be aware of what we have and that all we own is not ours, but God's. He shares it with us, a direct and. in a way, indirect way of involving himself in our lives.
Here, in the film, we meet a beautiful family facing more than enough struggles to handle. Kaye, one of the characters, gets involved in a money scheme so she could support her child. Now, although this money making scheme seems to be promising in a sense that it gives back so much, it too has its negative side. This was easily seen with how the money making scheme came crumbling down with the death of Kaye’s father, who was Kaye’s influencer.
It was through money that one was able to commit something wrong. Having its negative effects too, we see how such a thing can get the best of us. But in today’s Gospel, we are called to reflect upon our wrongs and avoid committing future sins, for we shall be judged and be placed where we deserve to be. The Angels will come and "separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace." We ought to be more prudent about our actions, that we must think thoroughly about what is good and what is evil.
In our day and age, to sin has become, in a way, inevitable. But it is how we learn from it all that matters in the end, to develop ourselves into responsible and loving people of God. The Gospel says that a man who finds the Kingdom of Heaven surrenders everything to attain it. The merchant sells his belongings to attain a pearl like no other. The person who finds heaven under the soil sells everything and buys the land which heaven lies. This tells us that we, upon finding God and His Kingdom, surrender our lives into His hands. Holding our faith closer to our hearts, repeating the mantra and hymn to ourselves that God will indeed provide. And we should be cautious not to take this for granted, that even if he provides, we ought to give what we can. Effort works both ways and what we give will be given back to us by another. That's how God works, he acts through our hearts like instruments of goodness and righteousness, bringing out the love that is sleeping deep inside us.
Let us always be aware of what we have and that all we own is not ours, but God's. He shares it with us, a direct and. in a way, indirect way of involving himself in our lives.