Reflection for September 12, Saturday of the Twenty-third Week in Ordinary Time: Luke 6:43-49

Gospel: Luke 6:43-49

Jesus said to his disciples “A good tree does not bear rotten fruit, nor does a rotten tree bear good fruit. For every tree is known by its own fruit. For people do not pick figs from thornbushes, nor do they gather grapes from brambles. A good person out of the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an evil person out of a store of evil produces evil; for from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ but not do what I command? I will show you what someone is like who comes to me, listens to my words, and acts on them. That one is like a man building a house, who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock; when the flood came, the river burst against that house but could not shake it because it had been well built. But the one who listens and does not act is like a person who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the river burst against it, it collapsed at once and was completely destroyed.”

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Reflection:

Who is the foundation of your life? If Jesus is the foundation of your life you’re in the hands of the most powerful rock of this world. Nothing can defeat you and nothing can destroy you because your life is strongly anchored upon Jesus.

Should we rest already and feel secure because our lives are anchored now in Jesus? No, because we have a mission and our mission is to share the gentleness and love of Jesus to our fellow men and women. We have to remember that we are the good tree that Jesus mentions in the gospel and out of our goodness we must share our fruit which is no other than Jesus.

Let us not keep our love for Jesus to ourselves let us share this radiant love with others so that they too will feel the love of Jesus. They too will feel the healing and forgiveness of Jesus because Jesus is very much needed today more than any other time in our history.

There are many who live their lives without the guidance of Jesus. If we care share Jesus even to only one of them we have already fulfilled our mission as His fruitful follower. And who knows by our courage of sharing Jesus we may change lives because we cared to share Jesus.  

Will you share Jesus? - Marino J. Dasmarinas