Luke
12:54-59
Jesus
said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west you say
immediately that it is going to rain–and so it does; and when you notice that
the wind is blowing from the south you say that it is going to be hot–and so it
is. You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and
the sky; why do you not know how to interpret the present time?
Why do
you not judge for yourselves what is right? If you are to go with your opponent
before a magistrate, make an effort to settle the matter on the way; otherwise
your opponent will turn you over to the judge, and the judge hand you over to
the constable, and the constable throw you into prison. I say to you, you will
not be released until you have paid the last penny.
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Reflection:
A philandering
and irresponsible husband was always being advised by his mother to change his
ways and focus his sole attention to his family. But the lure of temptation was
too attractive to let go for the man so he did not listen to his mother. After some time the limits of his wife’s
patience has finally reached its boiling point.
So she and her children left Him, being alone he finally realized how
irresponsible he was.
This is
who many of us are we keep on sinning and hurting the feelings of those that we
love. We are numb to well meaning advice because by its earthly nature sin is
attractive. And the devil will keep pushing sin to us (disguised as pleasures)
until it destroys us completely.
However,
Jesus has a message for us in the gospel. It’s for us to completely walk away
from our sinfulness before it destroys us. For the reason that the moment we
allow sin to take hold of us it will destroy not only us but even those that we
love dearly.
In our
gospel Jesus denounced the crowd for their hypocrisy, they could predict the
clouds and the weather. However they were purposely deaf to His call of
repentance, aren’t many of us like them? We only listen to the dictates of this
world but we shut our ears when it comes to Jesus!
Let us listen to Jesus who always call upon us
to repent because this is the right course of action to take. Jesus teachings
may be unacceptable to us initially because it will entail painful purification
and a change of lifestyle. But purification with Jesus always involves temporal
difficulties that will eventually translate to a life of tranquillity and
contentment.
Would you care to listen to Jesus? – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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