Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said, “Father,
the hour has come. Give glory to your son, so that your son may glorify you,
just as you gave him authority over all people, so that your son may give
eternal life to all you gave him. Now this is eternal life, that they should
know you, the only true God, and the one whom you sent, Jesus Christ. I
glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do. Now
glorify me, Father, with you, with the glory that I had with you before the
world began.
“I revealed your name to those whom you gave me out
of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have kept
your word. Now they know that everything you gave me is from you, because the
words you gave to me I have given to them, and they accepted them and truly
understood that I came from you, and they have believed that you sent me. I
pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for the ones you have given me,
because they are yours, and everything of mine is yours and everything of yours
is mine, and I have been glorified in them. And now I will no longer be in the
world, but they are in the world, while I am coming to you.”
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Reflection:
There is a story of a man who worked hard to amass
wealth. But on the course of his obsession to be wealthy he also noticed that
whatever wealth that he amassed immediately fly away from his hands.
It became a vicious cycle for him, he works hard
then he ends up with nothing. Why? The reason behind is he worked with the
wrong motivation, he worked for this world alone. Thus he was slowly being
eaten by the materialistic and evil culture of this world.
What is your life’s motivation? Is it to live a
comfortable life by way of amassing anything that is of this world? If this is
your motivation that would be catastrophic, for anything of this world is of
this world. Anyone that loves the things of this world is already imprisoned by
the curse of this world.
Jesus lived in this world not to become a citizen of
this world. He lived in this world only to fulfill the will of God for HIM and
that is to give His very own life for our sake. Jesus knew that He would gain
nothing if HE favors this world over HIS fidelity to HIS mission of
salvation.
What are you living for in this world? – Marino J.
Dasmarinas
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