Luke
13:1-9
Some
people told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the
blood of their sacrifices. He said to them in reply, “Do you think that because
these Galileans suffered in this way they were greater sinners than all other
Galileans? By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all
perish as they did! Or those eighteen people who were killed when the tower at
Siloam fell on them–do you think they were more guilty than everyone else who
lived in Jerusalem? By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will
all perish as they did!”
And he
told them this parable: “There once was a person who had a fig tree planted in
his orchard, and when he came in search of fruit on it but found none, he said
to the gardener, ‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this
fig tree but have found none. So cut it down. Why should it exhaust the soil?’ He
said to him in reply, ‘Sir, leave it for this year also, and I shall cultivate
the ground around it and fertilize it; it may bear fruit in the future. If not
you can cut it down.’”
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Reflection:
What does
sin do to us? It makes our life miserable and problematic but sin in any form
does not immediately show its true color. It sugarcoats itself first as
pleasure or something that would make life enjoyable for us. Then when we are
deep into it already it shows its hideous identity.
Jesus
through our gospel calls us to change our ways and repent from our sinfulness.
Jesus has been very patient with us even if we have been offending Him for so
many times. He patiently calls us everyday to permanently walk away from our
sinfulness while there is still time. Let us listen to His call of repentance.
When are
we going to listen? Should we wait until such time that we are already
incapacitated or when we are already on our deathbeds? It might be too late
already, let us listen to Him while there is still time, let us listen to Him
while we are still in the pink of health. Jesus loves us so dearly that He
wants us to be liberated from the enslavement of sin. This liberation will only
happen if we would listen to His call of repentance.
What if
we don’t listen to Jesus call of repentance? What would happen to us? We allow
ourselves to be continuously enslaved by the devil and we all know that the
devil will bring us nothing but misery. Do we want our lives to be miserable?
Of course not! Nobody wants to live a miserable life. Let us therefore listen
to the call of Jesus for us to repent and walk away from our sinfulness.
The Lord
is always kind and merciful, the Lord is always forgiving. Let us therefore
humble ourselves before Him by submitting ourselves to the healing Sacrament of
Reconciliation/Confession. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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