God's Math
How are you defining gains and losses today?
Matthew 10:39, The Inclusive Bible
You who have found your life will lose it, and you who lose your life for my sake will find it.
God’s math doesn’t always look like human math, especially if human math does not account for radical love. Gains and losses and sacrifices and sum totals are different in the presence of a God who offers whole-self whole-creation whole-neighbor flourishing and requires entire surrender.
Yet again, the gospel according to Matthew, is inviting readers to play all-in with the Jesus story. Ignatian spirituality is a tradition that invites us to seek God in orderly attachments; to reject any attachments that hinder our relationship to true life, true love.
Jesus’ words in Matthew’s gospel are challenging us to an audit - to what are we attached? Is our first concern appearance, consumption, perception? Or is our top priority being caught up in an all inclusive love?
How are you defining gains and losses today? By what rubric can you measure a life aligned with inclusive love?