Gospel: Matthew 24:42-51
Jesus
said to his disciples: “Stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord
will come. Be sure
of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief
was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into. So
too, you also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of
Man will come.
“Who,
then, is the faithful and prudent servant, whom the master has put in charge of
his household to distribute to them their food at the proper time? Blessed is
that servant whom his master on his arrival finds doing so. Amen, I say to you,
he will put him in charge of all his property. But if that wicked servant says
to himself, ‘My master is long delayed,’ and begins to beat his fellow
servants, and eat and drink with drunkards, the servant’s master will come on
an unexpected day and at an unknown hour and will punish him severely and
assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be wailing and
grinding of teeth.”
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Reflection:
Are you
afraid to die?
Death is
like a thief in the night it comes when we least expect it. There are even
people who are healthy who suddenly die without any apparent reason. That’s
life it can be taken from us anytime for we don’t own it we simply are stewards
of this life that we have.
In the gospel Jesus oddly compared the Lord to
a thief who comes unexpectedly. Maybe He did this to inculcate into the
stubborn minds of some of His followers the value of always doing good so that
if they unexpectedly die they can still be with Him in heaven.
This is a
wake-up call to all of us to change our ways for the better. Let us always
remember that we too are walking on this earth on borrowed time. Our life can
be taken from us anytime. If our eventual appointed time will come, it is a
must that we are always ready.
God has
given us this temporary life and eventually at His appointed time He will take
it away from us. We therefore have to always be prepared for we really do not
know our time of departure from this world. Only God knows, God gives and God
takes.
What are
you doing with your life right now? – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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