Gospel: Luke
14:15-24
One of
those at table with Jesus said to him, “Blessed is the one who will dine in the
Kingdom of God.” He replied to him, “A man gave a great dinner to which he
invited many. When the time for the dinner came, he dispatched his servant to
say to those invited, ‘Come, everything is now ready.’ But one by one, they all
began to excuse themselves. The first said to him, ‘I have purchased a field
and must go to examine it; I ask you, consider me excused.’ And another said,
‘I have purchased five yoke of oxen and am on my way to evaluate them; I ask
you, consider me excused.’ And another said, ‘I have just married a woman, and
therefore I cannot come.’ The servant went and reported this to his master. Then
the master of the house in a rage commanded his servant, ‘Go out quickly into
the streets and alleys of the town and bring in here the poor and the crippled,
the blind and the lame.’ The servant reported, ‘Sir, your orders have been
carried out and still there is room.’ The master then ordered the servant, ‘Go
out to the highways and hedgerows and make people come in that my home may be
filled. For, I tell you, none of those men who were invited will taste my
dinner.'"
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Reflection:
Why did
the invited guest excuse themselves from attending the dinner? The
reason behind is they all have their own worldly preoccupations. All the
invited guests were very busy with their own personal activities. Thus, they
missed the opportunity to break bread with the gracious host.
If only
they put aside first their personal undertaking to honor the invitation. They
could have known more about the generous host who invited them. They would have known that the host wanted to
build genuine and lasting friendship with them.
Our
busyness with the things of this world always prevents us from knowing Jesus
more deeply. It prevents us from building strong and lasting friendship with
Him. We therefore become creatures of this world rather than becoming future
dwellers of God’s kingdom.
Time will
surely come that we all have to say goodbye from this world. What would happen
to our souls if we have no time for God? If we are all work and pleasure and we
don’t honor Jesus’ offer of friendship?
It’s
always better to have time for God rather than have time for this world. It’s
always better to be poor but have God in our life than be rich without God. –
Marino J. Dasmarinas
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