Gospel: Luke
12:35-38
Jesus said to his disciples: “Gird
your loins and light your lamps and be like servants who await their master’s
return from a wedding, ready to open immediately when he comes and knocks. Blessed
are those servants whom the master finds vigilant on his arrival. Amen, I say
to you, he will gird himself, have them recline at table, and proceed to wait
on them. And should he come in the second or third watch and find them prepared
in this way, blessed are those servants.”
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Reflection:
Why does
Jesus tells us to be vigilant? Because we never know when he will come, He may
come any day that we least expect. This is how much Jesus loves us! If Jesus
doesn’t love us He wouldn’t bother to tell us to be prepared. But in truth and
in fact Jesus loves us dearly, are we able to reciprocate this great love of
Jesus for us?
If we
continue to do good; if we continue to be humble, if we are able to submit
ourselves to the Sacrament of Confession. If we continue to bring others closer
to Jesus and so forth then we are prepared. Are these already enough preparation
for the coming of the Lord? We never know for we don’t have the capacity to
read the mind of God.
Nevertheless,
Jesus has already given us the lead on how we could best prepare ourselves for
the great coming of the Lord. What if we are not prepared? We have nobody to
blame but ourselves for this simply means that we refused to heed the call of
Jesus.
But there
are many who live their lives as if they own it for themselves, as if they are
in-charge of their lives. But nobody is in-charge except Jesus that’s why we
must always be prepared.
Life is
never permanent we may be in the pink of health today but we never know what
may happen to us the next day or even the next minute. We never know if the
breath that we will take before we sleep tonight is our last or not, this is
how fragile life is.
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