Gospel: Matthew
7:21-29
(Jesus said to his
disciples) “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom
of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will
say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we
not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?’ Then
I will declare to them solemnly, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you
evildoers.’
“Everyone who
listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who
built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and
buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock. And
everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be
like a fool who built his house on sand. The rain fell, the floods came, and
the winds blew and buffeted the house. And it collapsed and was completely
ruined.”
When Jesus finished
these words, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as
one having authority, and not as their scribes.
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Reflection:
Where is your life anchored
today? Is it anchored on this world or anchored on no one else but God? It’s
very tempting to anchor our life to this world. For who would not want riches,
influence, power and the like? We would be hypocrite if we say that we don’t
want these all.
Yes we do want these
all, however what will happen to us if we become worldly? If God simply becomes
just an option for us where we go when we are in need of HIM and when we are
not anymore in need of HIM we don’t go to HIM anymore.
the reality of our
life is we were not created to become permanent citizens of this world. We are
mere temporal passersby in this world, sooner or later we will leave this world
and all the worldly possessions that we have accumulated. Where would we end-up
in the afterlife if we only live for this world?
It’s always better
if we accumulate our life with God, this means that we worship God and we do
what HE wants us to do. But this is not always the case we often times worship
HIM only and we don’t do what Jesus wants us to do.
Therefore we continue to
become slaves of this world.