Jesus departed from there and came to his native place, accompanied by
his disciples. When the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue, and
many who heard him were astonished. They said, “Where did this man get all
this? What kind of wisdom has been given him? What mighty deeds are wrought by
his hands! Is he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James
and Joseph and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they
took offense at him. Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except
in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house.” So he was not
able to perform any mighty deed there, apart from curing a few sick people by
laying his hands on them. He was amazed at their lack of faith.
+ + + + + + +
Reflection:
Was Jesus expecting to be treated like a powerful celebrity when He went
back to His hometown? No, because it was not in His character to flaunt
Himself. As much as possible Jesus wanted to be treated like an ordinary
person, never did He desire publicity and recognition. Jesus did miracles
without any fanfare and hype and we attribute this to His humility.
Let us think about us as individuals, don’t we desire recognition and
don’t we crave to be listened? We love it the moment we hear people
recognizing the things that we do and this is due to our yearning to satisfy
our bloated egos. Isn’t possible for us to be humble and low profile like
Jesus?
As we do good things or anything that we do for God let us not seek to be
recognized let us simply fade away. Let us not seek adulation for those who
crave adulation are also abandoned like a hot potato. Those who crave for
admiration ultimately ends up in disgrace.
Let us not be disheartened if we will not be recognized or honored for
these are just temporal honor/s given by temporal humans like us. In everything
let us seek the humility of Jesus, Let us seek the silent recognition of Jesus
rather than the noisy, fake and temporal recognition of this world. –
Marino J. Dasmarinas
No comments:
Post a Comment