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:
What are
you going to do if you’re assigned a responsibility? You surely will do
whatever it takes to properly accomplish the responsibility immediately. There will be no dilly dally you will
immediately do with competence what you have to do because this is the
responsibility given to you.
In our
gospel for today Jesus tells the disciples: Be prepared for the son of man will
come at an hour you do not expect. What kind of preparation does Jesus wants
from His disciples? Of course it is to live their lives the way Jesus lived His
life, this they could achieve through their humility, their concern for the
poor and by living their lives in the service of others.
How
should we prepare for Jesus? Should we prepare by making ourselves busy on how
to increase our material wealth? Of course not! The preparation that Jesus
speaks about is the same preparation that He required from His disciples. So
that when He knocks we would be able to let Him enter our lives.
Therefore,
we must not always busy ourselves on how to increase our wealth and how to
satisfy our earthly desires. For earthiness and material wealth are not the be
all and end all of life. The best
preparation for the coming of Jesus into our lives is to create time for Him no
matter how busy we are for this is the only way we could prepare for His
coming.
How are you
preparing for Jesus? - Marino J. Dasmarinas
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