Jesus said to his disciples: "Be merciful, just as your Father is
merciful."Stop judging and you will not be judged. Stop condemning and you
will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. Give and gifts will be
given to you; a good measure, packed together, shaken down, and overflowing, will
be poured into your lap. For the measure with which you measure will in return
be measured out to you."
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Reflection:
Are you merciful, forgiving and not quick to judge?
Jesus gives us precious lesson about being merciful because He is always
merciful to us. No matter how sinful we are His unfathomable mercy is always
there before us.
Jesus gives us lesson about being judgmental: We are not to judge because
we are to be judged too. On hindsight who are we to judge our fellowmen? We are
but a speck in this world and we are sinners as well. Do we judge because we
are moneyed, more educated and more powerful?
Jesus tells us not to condemn, instead of condemning, why not motivate
and be an instrument of healing and conversion? We may not know this but our
words are very powerful if we are quick to condemn. We might push to the brink
of desperation those that we condemn and the result may be tragic.
On forgiveness, Jesus tells us to always be forgiving. Why are
there people who cannot forgive? Perhaps the love of Jesus is not yet in their
hearts, when we don’t forgive we are only punishing ourselves with undeserved
burden. So let go of that anger and unforgiveness, forgive and leave everything
to our merciful God.
On giving, Jesus tells us to give from our hearts not from our excess
because many of us give for the reason that we don’t need it anymore. Let us
give from our hearts because whatever we freely give will be ploughed back to
us a hundredfold.
Let us reflect on these priceless insights from Jesus. – Marino J.
Dasmarinas
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