The Jews picked up rocks to stone Jesus. Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of these are you trying to stone me? The Jews answered him, “We are not stoning you for a good work but for blasphemy. You, a man, are making yourself God.” Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, ‘You are gods”‘? If it calls them gods to whom the word of God came, and Scripture cannot be set aside, can you say that the one whom the Father has consecrated and sent into the world blasphemes because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? If I do not perform my Father’s works, do not believe me; but if I perform them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, so that you may realize and understand that the Father is in me and I am in the Father.” Then they tried again to arrest him; but he escaped from their power. He went back across the Jordan to the place where John first baptized, and there he remained.
Many came to him and said, “John performed
no sign, but everything John said about this man was true.” And many there
began to believe in him.
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Reflection:
Do you sometimes feel unrewarded for the
effort/s that you do? For example, you did something good to a person and then
the person did not care to compliment or recognize your good deed.
How would you feel? Perhaps you will be
disheartened or even feel bad. On second thought instead of feeling
disheartened or bad I think you should still feel good for the reason that
you’ve done something worthy to someone.
Jesus did everything for the jews yet they
never thanked Him. He instead was persecuted for doing good. Did He feel bad
for not being given due recognition? Yes, because He was human like us. However
Jesus never allowed thier ingratitude to bring Him down and distract Him from
His focus with His mission of salvation.
This is the reality of life, there are those who will not
compliment us for the good that we’ve done for them. Nevertheless let us
continue to do good and not be disheartened for God knows everything and God
will always reward those who do good. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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