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:
What will happen to us if we would always observe the Ten Commandments
(Exodus 20:2-1) and the two greatest commandments that Jesus gave us
(Matthew 22:36-40)? We surely would move closer to Jesus, we would grow in
faith and there would be peace in our life.
This is the price that awaits those who would observe the laws of God.
Without close observance of God’s commandments there would also be no close
relationship with God. Observe those who don’t follow the commandments of God
or observe your very own self when you don’t follow God’s commandments. What
kind of life would you have? Isn’t a life of chaos, disturbance and endless
problems?
Therefore the key to intimacy with God is our faithful observance of His
commandments. But human as we are we are subject to our own frailties. We fall
and sin every once in a while and thus we are temporarily separated from the
love of God.
However Jesus also instituted the Sacrament of Reconciliation/Confession
so that whenever we sin we have a recourse out of sin. But even if we have a
recourse let us not abuse it by saying that, we will sin because there is the Sacrament
of Confession anyway.
Let us always be conscious that sin separates us from the love of God. We
therefore have to endeavor to always remain within the ambit of the love of
God, therefore we always have to follow the commandments of the Lord. –
Marino J. Dasmarinas
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