Gospel: Matthew
9:1-8
After entering a boat,
Jesus made the crossing, and came into his own town. And there people brought
to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to
the paralytic, “Courage, child, your sins are forgiven.” At that, some of the
scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.” Jesus knew what they
were thinking, and said, :Why do you harbor evil thoughts? Which is easier, to
say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? But that you may
know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”– he then said
to the paralytic, “Rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home.” He rose and went
home. When the crowds saw this they were struck with awe and glorified God
who had given such authority to men.
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Reflection:
What does this story of
the paralytic who was brought to Jesus tells us? It tells us that we too need
to go to Jesus for Him to heal us and to forgive us of all our sins. This tells
us as well that we also need to bring others to Jesus to be healed and forgiven by
Him too!
We all have a need for
Jesus in our lives. We may not need Him now because we are in the pink of
health and financially capable. But time will certainly come that we will be forced
to go to Jesus even beg Jesus so that He could heal us also.
Let us not anymore wait
for that time to come when we are already sick before we go to Jesus. Let us go
to Him now while we are still healthy, let us not delay for tomorrow may be
late already.
In like manner we too are
encouraged by the gospel to bring others to Jesus. This we could do best
through our acts of love, mercy and compassion. The reason behind is we can’t
bring others to Jesus without loving them, without showing them our mercy and
compassion.
We certainly can’t bring
others to Jesus if we are judgmental, not merciful and not compassionate. Let us
be more patient with them. So that they could be enlightened by Jesus as Jesus
has enlightened us. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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