Luke
19:41-44
As Jesus
drew near Jerusalem, he saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If this day you
only knew what makes for peace–but now it is hidden from your eyes. For the
days are coming upon you when your enemies will raise a palisade against you; they
will encircle you and hem you in on all sides. They will smash you to the
ground and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon
another within you because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.
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Reflection:
What will
happen to us if we will not listen to meaningful advice?
For
example, Carlo who is a drug pusher and addict was counselled by his wife to stop.
But Carlo ignored his wife’s advice after a few months Carlo was caught by the
police and was imprisoned for life.
When we
ignore meaningful advice something that we don’t like will come upon us. We
will not know when will it come to us but it will certainly come to us. So what
are we going to do if someone is giving us meaningful advice? We have to listen
and reform so that nothing untoward would happen to us.
Why did
Jesus weep over the people Jerusalem? This is for the reason that they did not
listen to the messengers of God and to Jesus who wanted nothing but their
welfare. They shut their eyes and ears to God as if God did not exist.
As we
continue with our journey in this world there would be people who will give us
meaningful advice. People who will tell us to disengage from a friend or people
who will tell us to stop doing wrong.
We have
to listen to them not because they know better than us. We have to listen for
the reason that God sent them to us so that we could straighten our crooked
lives. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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