The accounts of our Life : Check your receipts and payment account

GOSPEL THOUGHTS

*Ordinary Season : 19th Week : Thursday*

*Gospel : Mt 18:21–19:1*

*First Reading : Jos 3:7-10a, 11, 13-17*

*The accounts of our Life : Check your receipts and payment account*

*1) The System of accounting*

These days many are taking about final accounts of the institute, organization, NGOs, companies, business firms and individual persons 

This accounts helps us to evaluate and to know the sources and income and the ways through we incur expenses

The gospel of the day speaks about the accounts and the owner who wishes to settle the accounts with his servants 

This model is also applied to our life and we need to apply this model to our life in order to see the rich resources of our life 

*2) The Receipts of our Life*

God is the main source of our income. Everything we have in our life comes from God 

Our life, talents, skills, intelligence, wisdom, physical strength, internal organs, the sense organs, and every other things we have comes from God 

The Nature also another source of our income. The fresh air, the food that we eat, and so many other things come from the nature 

The fellow being is the another important source of our income. The relationship, love, care, concern, family life, belongingness everything comes from the fellow being which is a great source of our income 

*3) The Sources of our expenses*

Ideally these could be considered as the sources of our expenses

The daily sacrifices we make 

The struggles we encounter to live a upright life 

The generosity

The service we render 

The time we spend for the betterment of the other 

The collaboration we have for the wellbeing of everyone 

The challenges we face for the sake of truth and justice 

The tensions we undergo to do something good 

The humiliations we face for Christ 

The persecutions we face in living our faith and witnessing Christ 

These are the expenses of our life 

*4) Which side dominates?*

Technically speaks, the income side is always far great than the expenses we incur

Since God, Nature, and the fellow being is the source of our income, one can never have a loss account in ones life 

From the point, the life's account always remains at the profit level and it should remain at the profit level 

*5) Huge margin of Profit, is dangerous*

In the life's account, if some ones tries to make huge profit means, is not willing to spend any amount 

He concentrates only on receipts side and not on payment side 

Such a person becomes too greedy, and God given resources will be used only for selfish purpose 

Such an account of the life would be a big disaster

There should be a sizable amount of expenses also should be seen in life's account

*6) Life's Loss account*

This is an unfortunate account 

With all the resources one receives from the Lord, there are hardly any possibilities to have a loss account of ones life 

When a person uses the rich God given resources and incomes for evil and bad things, life's accounts automatically goes into total loss account 

The above mentioned expenses list never results in loss account but resources uses for evil things results in loss account 

A loss account of life's account results total loss in the eternity. 

So one needs to check now and then whether life's account is affected with Loss account

*Think about it*

*God bless you and your family. Praying for you and your dear ones*

*Fr Maxim DSouza*

*Jeppu Seminary*

*Mangalore*