Gospel: Matthew
13:47-53
Jesus
said to the disciples: “The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the
sea, which collects fish of every kind. When it is full they haul it ashore and
sit down to put what is good into buckets. What is bad they throw away. Thus it
will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from
the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be
wailing and grinding of teeth.”
“Do you
understand all these things?” They answered, “Yes.” And he replied, “Then every
scribe who has been instructed in the Kingdom of heaven is like the head of a
household who brings from his storeroom both the new and the old.” When Jesus
finished these parables, he went away from there.
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Reflection:
A
desperate man was set to end his life, when he was about to do it he heard the
voice of God which told him not to end his life. The man told God, I am a grievous
sinner my Lord I don’t deserve to live anymore, I deserve to die and be in
hell. The Lord told the man, I love you my son no matter who you are and no
matter what you have done.
The love
of God is like a net thrown into the sea which collects fish of every kind
(Matthew 13:47). It does not discriminate; it catches every fish, the good and
bad alike. The love of God is like this also, it’s for each and everyone of us:
sinner and non-sinner alike.
Yet this
love that God gives us freely is not also being forced upon us. We also have
the freedom if we would respond by renewing our lives or we continue with our
sinful ways. If we renew our lives and permanently walkaway from sin then we
save our lives.
But if we continue on sinning notwithstanding the
fact that God has already called us. We therefore have to be ready for the grievous
consequence that may befall us. It’s no
brainer therefore that we have to discontinue our sinful lives and take
advantage of the love of God that he perpetually offers us.
Let us
choose to embrace the love of God and permanently dump into oblivion the sinful
offering of the devil. For the simple reason that the love of God is heaven on
earth. While the sinful offering of the devil will bring us nowhere but hell. -
Marino J. Dasmarinas
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