Gospel: John 8:21-30
Jesus said to the Pharisees: “I am going away and you will look for me,
but you will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.” So the Jews
said, “He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, ‘Where I am
going you cannot come’?” He said to them, “You belong to what is below, I
belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this
world. That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not
believe that I AM, you will die in your sins.” So they said to him, “Who are
you?” Jesus said to them, “What I told you from the beginning. I have much to
say about you in condemnation. But the one who sent me is true, and what I
heard from him I tell the world.” They did not realize that he was speaking to
them of the Father. So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man,
then you will realize that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say
only what the Father taught me. The one who sent me is with me. He has not left
me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him.” Because he spoke this
way, many came to believe in him.
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Reflection:
What does sin do to us? It separates us from the infinite love of God,
the more we sin the more that we widen the distance between us and God.
Why do we sin? We sin because we succumb to the devil’s temptation. But we are
not beyond redemption for the reason that we have someone who is always there
for us to save us from the bondage of sin and He’s no other than Jesus.
The moment we submit ourselves to the sacrament of Confession we allow
Jesus to extricate us from the bondage of sin. We allow Jesus to take out
whatever evil particle that we have in our system.
As we get closer to the holiest of weeks we are slowly but surely being
brought by the church closer to Jesus. For what reason is this? To make us
realize about the great love and sacrifice that Jesus did on the cross. Jesus died
for us on the cross, He need not die on the cross but He gave His life for His
love for us.
At the end of the day it’s still upon us if we want to permanently
separate ourselves from the love of Jesus. Or if we go to Jesus and accept His
offer of salvation Jesus is always there waiting for us ever ready to forgive
and love us once again.
We have everything to gain and nothing to lose if we surrender
everything to Jesus. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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