Gospel: John
17:1-11a
Jesus
raised his eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Give glory to
your son, so that your son may glorify you, just as you gave him authority over
all people, so that your son may give eternal life to all you gave him. Now
this is eternal life, that they should know you, the only true God, and the one
whom you sent, Jesus Christ. I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work
that you gave me to do. Now glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I
had with you before the world began.
“I
revealed your name to those whom you gave me out of the world. They belonged to
you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that
everything you gave me is from you, because the words you gave to me I have
given to them, and they accepted them and truly understood that I came from
you, and they have believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I do not pray
for the world but for the ones you have given me, because they are yours, and
everything of mine is yours and everything of yours is mine, and I have been
glorified in them. And now I will no longer be in the world, but they are in
the world, while I am coming to you.”
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Reflection:
There is
a story of a man who worked hard to amass wealth. But on the course of his
obsession to be wealthy he also noticed that whatever wealth that he amassed immediately fly away from his hands.
It became a vicious cycle for him, he works
hard then he ends up with nothing. Why? Because he worked with the wrong
motivation, he worked for this world alone. Thus he was slowly being eaten by
the materialistic and evil culture of this world.
What is
your life’s motivation? Is it to live a comfortable life by way of amassing
anything that is of this world? If this is your motivation that would be
catastrophic, for anything of this world is of this world. Anyone that loves
the things of this world is already imprisoned to the curse of this world.
Jesus
lived in this world not to become a citizen of this world. He lived in this
world only to fulfill the will of God for HIM and that is to give His very own
life for our sake. Jesus knew that He would gain nothing if HE favors this
world over HIS fidelity to HIS mission of salvation.
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