Acts 6:8-15 / John 6:22-29 (2019)
There is this classroom joke about a teacher who asked her class to write a composition with the title "What would I do if I had $10 million?"
So all the kids started writing. Then the teacher noticed a boy who just sat there doing nothing.
So she asked the boy: And why are you doing nothing?
The boy replied : If I had $10 million, that's what I'll be doing - nothing.
But we know for a fact that whether we had $10 million or just only 10cents, we won't just sit around and do nothing.
We want to be doing something, simply because we are task-oriented and goal-centered beings.
But in all that we are doing, what do we hope to achieve? What is our purpose in life?
In today's gospel, Jesus is asking us this: What are we working for? What is the purpose of all that we are doing?
Is it something that is not just temporary but even something that we can bring into eternity?
In all that we are doing and working for, is it leading us to God?
That's more than a $10 million question; it is a question about our eternity.