Christ taught his disciples to have absolute confidence in God. He promised the little flock of the harmless, despised, and persecuted, to inherit the fullness of the kingdom of God, and that the Holy One himself would dwell in them. In this excessive supplication, Jesus asked them to dispense with their holding of earthly possessions, and to give alms and help to the poor in prudent ways. God is their reward, treasure, and future. They can free themselves from earthly guarantees, and learn to give, grant, and offer generously, according to God’s designs, following the example of his Son, the source of generosity, donation, and excellent gifts.
He who despises his earthly possession, and makes the needy participants in it, becomes in harmony with God who gave us criminals in his Son all that he had. He wants to establish us in his love so that we may never fall. In Christ’s spiritual expanses there is neither rust, nor thieves, nor microbes, nor any kind of degeneration, but there prevail truth, faithfulness, and sincerity. So where is your treasure, on earth, or in heaven where Christ is? If you imagined earthly things, you would fade away like this world and burn in hell, but if you considered the things of heaven, you would continue forever as your Lord is eternal.