Luke
19:11-28
While
people were listening to Jesus speak, he proceeded to tell a parable because he
was near Jerusalem and they thought that the Kingdom of God would appear there
immediately. So he said, “A nobleman went off to a distant country to obtain
the kingship for himself and then to return. He called ten of his servants and
gave them ten gold coins and told them, ‘Engage in trade with these until I
return.’ His fellow citizens, however, despised him and sent a delegation after
him to announce, ‘We do not want this man to be our king.’ But when he returned
after obtaining the kingship, he had the servants called, to whom he had given
the money, to learn what they had gained by trading. The first came forward and
said, ‘Sir, your gold coin has earned ten additional ones. He replied, ‘Well
done, good servant! You have been faithful in this very small matter; take
charge of ten cities.’ Then the second came and reported, ‘Your gold coin, sir,
has earned five more.’ And to this servant too he said, ‘You, take charge of
five cities.’ Then the other servant came and said, ‘Sir, here is your gold
coin; I kept it stored away in a handkerchief, for I was afraid of you, because
you are a demanding man; you take up what you did not lay down and you harvest
what you did not plant.’ He said to him, ‘With your own words I shall condemn
you, you wicked servant. You knew I was a demanding man, taking up what I did
not lay down and harvesting what I did not plant; why did you not put my money
in a bank? Then on my return I would have collected it with interest.’ And to
those standing by he said, ‘Take the gold coin from him and give it to the
servant who has ten.’ But they said to him, ‘Sir, he
has ten gold coins.’ He replied, ‘I tell you, to everyone who has, more will be
given, but from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away. Now
as for those enemies of mine who did not want me as their king, bring them here
and slay them before me.
After he
had said this, he proceeded on his journey up to Jerusalem.
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Reflection:
What is
our mission in this world? Our mission is to become productive followers of the
Lord and how could we become productive followers? If we spread the faith we
become productive followers if we don’t do anything we become unproductive
follower.
The good
Lord would always want us to share our faith so that we could grow for this is
the only way for us to bear fruit. But
many of us are afraid to share and our excuse is we don’t know anything about
Jesus and about our Catholic faith.
How would
we know if we don’t strive to know more about Jesus? Therefore the secret to
know more about Jesus is to discover more about Him. And the more that we
discover the more that we would have the tools to become His productive
followers.
We
therefore have to know more about Jesus so that we could mature in faith and in
the process we would be able to share what we know about Him. Jesus has already
equipped us with the needed grace through our Baptism and Confirmation.
The
responsibility is in our hands already. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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