God Is Asking You to Give Him Everything

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.9 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

How do we give God everything? It's obvious from the stories throughout the Scriptures that God is asking us to give him everything but is He also calling us to "sell everything and give alms to the poor" as he asks of the rich young man?

Today, Fr. Mike helps us make the distinction between the sometimes particular call to "give everything away" and the universal call to give God everything. It is certainly the case that each and every one of us is called to relinquish all that we have and all that we are to God's service and to trust Him with everything.

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0:00.0	We're gonna roll up the sleeves to this one
0:01.6	because it's time to get down to work.
0:04.8	Someone once commented on the sleeves,
0:06.1	like pre-sleeves, apparently, they have a big gap
0:08.6	and so there's this big puffy thing in your forearms.
0:12.8	I didn't ever realize that,
0:14.1	but someone pointed it out.
0:15.6	They said they hate it.
0:16.6	And I was like, wow, I never noticed, but now I do.
0:19.9	Hi, my name's Father Mike Smith
0:20.8	and this is The Scent of Presents.
0:22.3	So recently someone had asked me the question.
0:24.9	They said, how do you get got everything?
0:27.6	Because it's a really great question
0:30.4	because we hear stories in the Bible about,
0:33.4	here's Jesus who comes to the rich young man.
0:35.7	And the rich young man asks the question,
0:38.3	what must they do to an heredy, eternal life?
0:40.5	And Jesus says, you know the commandments, what are they?
0:42.6	And the rich young man says, well, here they are.
0:44.6	And I've kept all of them from my youth.
0:46.6	And Jesus says, he's looking at him, love him.
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