Jesus said: “Come to me, all you who
labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and
learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart; and you will find rest for
yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”
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Reflection:
A young man who was trying very hard to
find his place in this world was at the point of surrender. He murmured to
himself, “I am a total failure, in the abyss of his frustration he thought of
ending his life.
Until he was advised by a friend to
seek God and surrender every burdens that he has in his heart. So, he went to
Mass regularly and he read his bible, after a few weeks he developed a deep
friendship with Jesus and he surrendered his everything to Him.
Many of us have this tendency to allow
ourselves to be eaten up by the frenetic pace and materialism of this
world. We get too busy in fact very busy because we want to satisfy our many
temporal wants. But come to think of it, why are we punishing ourselves too
much just to satisfy our worldly desires? Why are many of us favoring this
world when what we earn from this world can actually be taken from us anytime?
In our gospel for today, Jesus invites
us all to go to Him. We who are so busy with this world, we who tend to forget
the primacy of God over this world. When are we going to open our hearts to
this invitation of Jesus? When we are already old and sick? Let us not wait for
that time to come because it’s too late already.
Let us build a relationship with Jesus
now and let us respond to His invitation now. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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