Gospel: Luke
4:14-22
Jesus
returned to Galilee in the power of the Spirit, and news of him spread
throughout the whole region. He taught in their synagogues and was praised by
all.
He came
to Nazareth, where he had grown up, and went according to his custom into the
synagogue on the sabbath day. He stood up to read and was handed a scroll of
the prophet Isaiah. He unrolled the scroll and found the passage where it was
written: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring
glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and
recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a
year acceptable to the Lord.
Rolling
up the scroll, he handed it back to the attendant and sat down, and the eyes of
all in the synagogue looked intently at him. He said to them, “Today this
Scripture passage is fulfilled in your hearing.” And all spoke highly of him and
were amazed at the gracious words that came from his mouth.
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Reflection:
Are you
living and fulfilling your baptismal mission?
We have a
mission for our existence, we are not mere vapors in this world we are human
beings. We were anointed by the Sacrament of Baptism to continue the mission of
Jesus. Have we shared His worlds in the bible, have we already helped the poor,
the hungry the oppressed and the homeless?
It is
very important that from time to time we have a self-evaluation of our lives in
this world. For we may just be living our lives according to what this world
dictates us to do. For example, the dictum of this world about
self-gratification and wanton accumulation of material wealth.
What
would happen to us if we embrace this world and we purposely forget the
teaching of Jesus? We would end up like a walking dead person, walking and
breathing in this world without a purpose.
God did
not create us to become creatures of this world. He created us not to
accumulate wealth! He created us so that we could share whatever material and
intellectual wealth that we have. God
did not create us to live our life according to the dictates of this world. God
created us to live our life according to the life of Jesus.
Let us
therefore live the life of Jesus, let us spread His teachings. There are more
rewards in doing this than embracing the dictates of this world. Worldly
satisfactions are short lived and problem filled that is sugar coated with
enticing pleasures. Pleasures that do not last, pleasures that only plunge us
to deeper enslavement of the devil.
Are you
living the teachings of Jesus or you are presently embracing the dictates of
this world? – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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