Gospel:
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:
Do you
obey Jesus when He tells you to stop sinning or to avoid those people who only
make you sin? Jesus does this to you using people close to you, for example
Jesus may use a relative, a friend or a
life incident to tell you to walk away from sin.
During
the time of Jesus, He directly called for repentance, some listened to His
call. But many of them did not listen, they instead continued with their sinful
way of life. In so doing they wrapped themselves with problems that they could
have easily avoided if they only listened to Jesus.
Come to
think of it, in our own personal lives there are also many instances that we
are advised to live a clean life. To renew our lives and walk away from all our
sinfulness, but do we listen? Often times we don’t listen because we love to
follow our own sinful desires, we allow the devil to possess us instead of
Jesus.
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Thank you very much for sharing your reflection
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