有哪個基督徒不知道，他應全心、全靈、全意、全力愛天主；並且應愛人如己呢？可惜，知易行難，要實踐上述十誡的總綱，實非易事。我們很容易找到千個百個理由，解釋為甚麼實踐這總綱是如此困難。總結起來，不外乎以下兩個原因。
首先，「心不在焉」。日常的生活，有太多事物要處理，全部的注意力，已集中在自己身上，集中在手上要應付的事物上。哪有空間關心身邊的人呢？連身邊的人也無暇關心，何況遠在天上的天主呢？
其次，「力不從心嘛」。到想起身邊的人的時候，已經筋疲力盡，哪來力量照顧他們，愛護他們呢？天主呢？祂是全能力，用不著我去關心祂吧！
你覺得上述的生活，幸福快樂嗎？這種本末倒置的生活，何來幸福可言？這種被牽著鼻子走的生活，何來快樂之有呢？
本末倒置，因為天主是我們存在的根本。追求根本，我們可以吸取無窮的力量，源源不絕的能量，何來力不從心呢？把天主邊緣化，我們只能訴諸自己有限的力量，很快便油盡燈枯，當然力不從心了。
耶穌說：「你的財寶也在那裡，你的心也必在那裡。」（瑪6:21）那麼，你會把你的心放在哪？心不在天主，祗憑己力，不久便油盡燈枯。心在天主，天主就成了我們的財寶，是用之不竭的財寶，無限的財寶。這麼簡單的算術，難道你不懂嗎？
慈悲的天父，我把我的心，交在祢的手中。亞孟。
WHERE WILL YOU PUT YOUR HEART? (Mark 12:28b-34)
Which Christian does not know that he should love God with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his mind and with all his strength, and love his neighbour as himself? Unfortunately, it is easier said than done. It is not at all easy to put this summary of the Ten Commandments into practice. It is very easy to put up hundreds and even thousands of reasons to explain why it is so difficult to practise. But in reality, there are no more than the following two.
Firstly, the heart is not there. There are too many things to handle in our daily life. We pay all our attention to ourselves, to tackle all the jobs in hand. Where can we find the attention span to care about people around us? If we cannot afford to care about people near us, how can we care about God who resides in heavens?
Secondly, though we have the heart, we don't have the strength! By the time we remember the people around us, we are already exhausted. Where does the strength come from to take care of them, to love them? What about God? Well, isn't He almighty? He doesn't need us to care about Him!
Do you think the way of life described above is a happy one? How can an upside down life be happy? When you are being led by the nose, where does happiness come from?
This kind of life is upside down because God is the root of our existence. When we seek God, we will obtain infinite amount of inexhaustible energy. How then can we be exhausted? But when we marginalize God and resort to the finite amount of energy of our own, we will burn out very quickly. Of course, we are exhausted.
Jesus said, "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." (Matthew 6:21) So, where will you put your heart? If your heart is not in God and you rely only on yourself, you will soon burn out. If your heart is in God, He will become your treasure, an inexhaustible treasure, an infinite treasure. This is simple arithmetic. Don't you know that?
Merciful Father in heaven, into thy hands I commit my heart. Amen.
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