Gospel: Luke
11:14-23
Jesus was driving
out a demon that was mute, and when the demon had gone out, the mute man spoke
and the crowds were amazed. Some of them said, “By the power of Beelzebul, the
prince of demons, he drives out demons. Others, to test him, asked him for a
sign from heaven. But he knew their thoughts and said to them “Every kingdom
divided against itself will be laid waste and house will fall against house. And
if Satan is divided against himself how will his kingdom stand? For you say
that it is by Beelzebul that I drive out demons. If I, then, drive out demons
by Beelzebul, by whom do your own people drive them out? Therefore they will be
your judges. But if it is by the finger of God that I drive out demons, then
the Kingdom of God has come upon you. When a strong man fully armed guards his
palace, his possessions are safe. But when one
stronger than he attacks and overcomes him, he takes away the armor on which he
relied and distributes the spoils. Whoever is not with me is against me, and
whoever does not gather with me scatters.
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Reflection:
Do you believe in
Jesus as your Lord and savior? In our gospel for today, after casting out the
demon from a man Jesus was accused to be one with the demons. They obviously
did not believe in Jesus as their Lord and savior. They also can’t believe that
Jesus is capable of doing this miracle with good intentions in His heart. Otherwise
they would have not accused Him as one with the demons.
Who is one with the
demons? Is it Jesus or the ones who refuse to believe in Him? There are only to
options that we have in this world to believe in Jesus or not to believe in
Jesus. To believe means that we should walk the path of Jesus for we can’t say that
we believe yet we don’t walk the path of Jesus. Those who don’t believe are
those who are vulnerable to the company and possession of the devil.
Many of the people
of today are like those in the time of Jesus who did not believe in Him. For
what reasons? Perhaps they are so obsessed with their own selves. That they
regard themselves as somebody who know better than Jesus that’s why they don’t
believe.
But the consequence
of not believing in Jesus is enormous. First and foremost is they invite the
devil to possess them. And once they are already possessed by the devil they
now are capable of doing evil without any guilt of conscience. This is the
reason why there are mothers who abort their unborn child without any guilt of conscience.
They are capable of doing this despicable act because they are already possessed
by the devil of convenience.
But there’s still
hope for as long as there are people like you who believe in Jesus. People like
you who will stand for the teachings and values of Jesus and people like you
who will value the gift of life more than the evil of abortion and wicked convenience.
– Marino J. Dasmarinas
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