Gospel: Matthew
9:1-8
After
entering a boat, Jesus made the crossing, and came into his own town. And there
people brought to him a paralytic lying on a stretcher. When Jesus saw their
faith, he said to the paralytic, “Courage, child, your sins are forgiven.” At
that, some of the scribes said to themselves, “This man is blaspheming.” Jesus
knew what they were thinking, and said, :Why do you harbor evil thoughts? Which
is easier, to say, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise and walk’? But
that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”– he
then said to the paralytic, “Rise, pick up your stretcher, and go home.” He
rose and went home. When the
crowds saw this they were struck with awe and glorified God who had given such
authority to men.
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Reflection:
What does
this story of the paralytic who was brought to Jesus tells us? It tells us that
we too need to go to Jesus for Him to heal us and to forgive us of all our
sins. This tells us also that we also need to bring others to Jesus to be
healed and forgiven by Him too!
We all
have a need for Jesus in our lives. We may not need Him now because we are in
the pink of health. But time will certainly come that we will be forced to go
to Him even beg Him so that Jesus could heal us also.
Let us
not anymore wait for that time to come when we are already sick before we go to
Jesus. Let us go to Him now while we are healthy or in the pink of health Let
us not delay for tomorrow may be late already.
In like
manner we too are encouraged by the gospel to bring others to Jesus. This we
could do best through our acts of love, mercy and compassion. For we can’t
bring others to Jesus without loving them, without showing them our mercy and
compassion.
We
certainly can’t bring others to Jesus if we judge them. Let us
rather help them and try to understand them and be more patient with them. So
that they could be enlightened by Jesus as Jesus has enlightened us. – Marino
J. Dasmarinas
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