Gospel: Luke
12:39-48
Jesus
said to his disciples: “Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known
the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken
into. You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of
Man will come.”
Then
Peter said, “Lord, is this parable meant for us or for everyone?” And the Lord
replied, “Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the master will
put in charge of his servants to distribute the food allowance at the proper
time? Blessed is that servant whom his master on arrival finds doing so. Truly,
I say to you, he will put him in charge of all his property. But if
that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to
beat the menservants and the maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk, then
that servant’s master will come on an unexpected day and at an unknown hour and
will punish the servant severely and
assign him a place with the unfaithful. That servant who knew his master’s will
but did not make preparations nor act in accord with his will shall be beaten
severely; and the servant who was ignorant of his master’s will but acted in a
way deserving of a severe beating shall be beaten only lightly. Much will be
required of the person entrusted with much, and still more will be demanded of
the person entrusted with more.”
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Reflection:
Are you
prepared for the coming of the Lord?
Here in
our gospel Jesus tells us to be prepared for we do not know the time of His
coming. Aside from being prepared Jesus gives us another responsibility none
other than to share whatever we know about Him. It’s not enough for Jesus that
we know Him. He wants us to move on and
do the next step and this is to share what we know about Him.
The
Christian faith that God has given to us is not to be kept to ourselves. We
must share and live it for it is in sharing and living our faith that we are
able to completely follow Jesus. To whom we would share? Start within your
family most especially your children. If you are able to successfully
evangelize you will have no problem of what will happen to them when they
become adults.
But the
dilemma of many of us is we don’t share with our children what we know about
Christ. Not because we know nothing about Jesus, many of us actually don’t have
a shortage of knowledge about Jesus. In fact many of us know abundantly about
Jesus but the problem is we don’t live and practice what we know about Christ
and His teachings. This is one of the major reasons why we are not able to
share Jesus with our children and with our friends.
We must
aspire to learn more about Christ Jesus and after learning more about Him. We
must live what we’ve learned from Him, thus we become prepared for His coming anytime. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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