Gospel: Luke
17:26-37
Jesus
said to his disciples: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the
days of the Son of Man; they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in
marriage up to the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and
destroyed them all. Similarly, as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, drinking,
buying, selling, planting, building; on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and
brimstone rained from the sky to destroy them all. So it will be on the day the
Son of Man is revealed. On that day, someone who is on the housetop and whose
belongings are in the house must not go down to get them, and likewise one in
the field must not return to what was left behind. Remember the wife of Lot. Whoever
seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it. I
tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken,
the other left. And there will be two women grinding meal together; one will be
taken, the other left.” They said to him in reply, “Where, Lord?” He said to
them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather.”
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Reflection:
When are
we going to walk away from our sins? Should we still delay and wait when the
most opportune time comes? It might not come and it might be too late already. We
should change our ways right at this very moment for we do not know until when our
life will be.
The
people during Noah’s time were merrymaking and sinning until the floods came so
they died without repentance. Same as with the people of Sodom and Gomorra who
were engaged in grievous sexual sins they died without repentance also.
What is
sin that many of us are so smitten by it? Sin is the bait or trap of the devil
for us to end in his kingdom. Many of us fall into this bait for the simple
reason that we have weak faith in God. This is basically the reason why we sin.
But sin will bring us nothing but troubles and problems, it will not bring us
any good.
Let us
take time to read about Jesus, let us take time to listen to Jesus and let us
be faithful to Jesus. And He surely will find a way for us so that we could
walk away permanently from sin. Sin doesn’t offer us any good at all and sin will
not bring us except chaos until it destroys us.
The
burden or curse of sin doesn’t end when we die, we carry it over onto the
afterlife where the final judgment will be.
– Marino J. Dasmarinas
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