Matthew
18:12-14
Jesus
said to his disciples: “What is your opinion? If a man has a hundred sheep and
one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go
in search of the stray? And if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices
more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray. In just the same
way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones
be lost.
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Reflection:
Can we
compare the love of Jesus with how we exercise our love for our fellowmen? No,
we cannot compare because majority if not all of us love with preconditions and
conditions we love with limitations and
we love only those who give us love. Jesus loves us without any preconditions,
limitations and He loves us even if we don’t love Him in return.
We all
know that Jesus is alluding about His infinite love for us when He told this
story of the lost sheep. By way of this
story He is also telling us that His love for us is always there no matter how
sinful we are and no matter who we are.
As we
follow Jesus we must also ask Him to deepen our faith and to erase our
preconditions and conditions when we love. For example, if before we could only
love those who give us love, now that we have become mature followers of Jesus.
We will love even those who do not give us love and those people who do not
love us anymore.
To love
even those who do not love us and those who hurt us is very hard to do. But if
we really are sincere in following Jesus we would be able to love them. And we
would search for them until we find them and forgive them without any
precondition.
Let us
look for those who went astray, let us forgive and give them the unconditional
love of Jesus. - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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