Being to live, and living to Become.
18 A certain ruler asked him, “Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”
19 “Why do you call me good?” Jesus answered. “No one is good—except God alone. 20 You know the commandments: ‘You shall not commit adultery, you shall not murder, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’[a]”
21 “All these I have kept since I was a boy,” he said.
22 When Jesus heard this, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
23 When he heard this, he became very sad, because he was very wealthy.24 Jesus looked at him and said, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! 25 Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.”
26 Those who heard this asked, “Who then can be saved?”
27 Jesus replied, “What is impossible with man is possible with God.”
28 Peter said to him, “We have left all we had to follow you!”
29 “Truly I tell you,” Jesus said to them, “no one who has left home or wife or brothers or sisters or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God 30 will fail to receive many times as much in this age, and in the age to come eternal life.”
Creative Analysis of the Text
Attachment to material things is what makes us run against the current and automatically disconnect ourselves from the system of giving and receiving through the Creator’s light. When we activate this mechanism from a place of scarcity, we begin chasing worldly things. We chase shining objects, we run and run to reach them, but once we arrive, we have forgotten the most important thing: Love.
The unconditional nature of love is perhaps the kindest gift the Creator has given humanity. It gives us time to reflect, time to simply be, and most importantly, time to truly live. The three complete one another: being, living, and reflecting. Three forms of wisdom that we get to experience every day, a circular learning. We are meant to be in order to live, and we live in order to reflect. When we rise, we descend and learn; and when we descend, we practice and reflect. That is love. Love for our soul's evolution.
That is why living through love is what saves us from everything else: even from false spirituality, the kind that tries to deceive the mind and disguises itself as love, pretending to possess virtues it does not truly have. Pride disguises itself as the desire to “inherit eternal life” without first crossing the desert. Sadness enters our temple because we do not want to “sell everything we have in order to enter the kingdom of heaven.” And so we continue walking, but…
…it feels as though we have arrived at nothingness.
And it is there, in the middle of that desert, in absolute solitude, that after forty days and forty nights we finally understand the value of not running. We transform. The very concept of running changes. We begin the race in the opposite direction; we change course and run with greater strength, yet without effort.
We run to give.
We run to share.
We run to be.
Because that is our truest essence: to run in the direction of God. We are meant to live, and we live in order to become.
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