“. . . For God all things are Possible” Mark 10:30

There are many gods today roaming our streets, bank accounts, homes, world, even our hearts. What is the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning and what is the last thing you do before you sleep? Which thoughts wake you up in the morning and which thoughts render you sleepless at night.

Wisdom, these days, is in short supply: we worry about money and what money can buy; we worry about power and the influence that comes with it; we fight and quarrel over worldly glamour, and, sometimes, we are ready to do violence! In all these needless preoccupations, there is, indeed, only one thing that matters – God!

A wise person asks only one question: do I have one God or many gods? The rich young man of today’s gospel failed this crucial test: he could not see the link between the commandments and wealth – God. As soon as God takes a secondary place in our lives, we have multiply our gods! Absolutely nothing should either remotely or proximately compete with our total fidelity and loyalty to monotheism. Divided allegiances lead to pantheism – the worship of many gods: money, power, sex, etc. From them all, deliver us O Lord!

Ayodele Ayeni, C.S.Sp.