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 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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