Jesus said to
his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the
prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until
heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a
letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place. Therefore,
whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do
so will be called least in the Kingdom of heaven. But whoever obeys and teaches
these commandments will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven.”
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Reflection:
Do you obey,
teach and live the commandments of the Lord?
Jesus in our
gospel for today speaks about Himself as the fulfillment of the law. In effect
Jesus was telling the disciples I am now the fulfilment of those commandments
from the Old Testament.
For example,
the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:1-17) which God gave to Moses in the mountain
of Sinai. Jesus summarized these ten to become the two greatest commandments
which states: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your
soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment.
And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and
the Prophets hang on these two commandments (Matthew 22:37-40).”
Jesus
summarized the ten commandments thus it became the two greatest commandments of
love. Indeed, if we really have Jesus in our lives there would be no room for
hatred, condemnation, self-righteousness, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.
What would
remain in our hearts is love for love is the advocacy and language of Jesus.
Jesus love for us is so unlike the love that we have. This is for the reason
that Jesus love is not a selective kind of love but love for everyone of us no
matter who we are.
This is therefore the exercise of love that we have to
emulate: To love everyone no matter how they loved us and no matter the sins
that they’ve committed against us. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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