Gospel: John 5:31-47
Jesus said to the Jews: “If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is
not true. But there is another who testifies on my behalf, and I know that the
testimony he gives on my behalf is true. You sent emissaries to John, and he
testified to the truth. I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that
you may be saved. He was a burning and shining lamp, and for a while you were
content to rejoice in his light. But I have testimony greater than John’s. The
works that the Father gave me to accomplish, these works that I perform testify
on my behalf that the Father has sent me. Moreover, the Father who sent me has
testified on my behalf. But you have never heard his voice nor seen his form,
and you do not have his word remaining in you, because you do not believe in
the one whom he has sent. You search the Scriptures, because you think you have
eternal life through them; even they testify on my behalf. But you do not want
to come to me to have life.
“I do not accept human praise; moreover, I know that you do not have the
love of God in you. I came in the name of my Father, but you do not accept me;
yet if another comes in his own name, you will accept him. How can you believe,
when you accept praise from one another and do not seek the praise that comes
from the only God? Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father: the
one who will accuse you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope. For if you
had believed Moses, you would have believed me, because he wrote about me. But
if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”
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Reflection:
How do we testify our life as a follower of Jesus? The best testimony of
a follower is how he/she lives his own life. Does he live his life with
forgiveness, humility, simplicity, sacrifice, unconditional love and the
like? Many of us call ourselves follower of Jesus but when it comes
to forgiving those who’ve hurt us we cannot forgive.
If we cannot forgive those who’ve hurt us we then are followers in name
only and sad to say many of us are like that: Followers in name only. On the
aspect of humility; we can best testify that we are followers of Jesus when we
don’t seek prominence and we silently do our work for the lord without any
fanfare or publicity.
On the aspect of simplicity, Jesus is the supreme model of simplicity. He
is content with whatever that He possess Jesus did not desire expensive things
and other appendages. Many of us live complicated lives for the simple reason
that we live the life of this world rather than live the life of Jesus. –
Marino J. Dasmarinas
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