Gospel: Matthew 7:1-5
How can you say to your brother ‘Let me
remove that splinter from your eye, while the wooden beam is in your eye? You
hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see
clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.
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Reflection:
What can we get by judging others? Nothing except the accumulation of hatred in our hearts which if not corrected could even cause us sickness even death. What if we would not judge or if we are not quick to judge? There would be no hatred within us! As such we are free, we would look younger and sickness will not be our best friend.
We may not know this but we are quick to judge others for the simple reason that we have a very high regard of ourselves. And this is brought about by our feeling of superiority towards others. But why do we feel superior towards others when we are all created by God as equals? Where does this superiority feeling emanates? We have this feeling of superiority because God is not a permanent dweller in our hearts.
There’s a story of a woman who was a regular fixture in their parish church organization. But she was not well liked because she was so judgmental, has a high regard of herself and self-righteous. Are we not sometimes also judgmental, has a high regard of ourselves and self-righteous?
In our gospel for this Monday we hear
Jesus telling us to stop judging. Why? This is for the reason that when we
judge we already distance ourselves from the person that we judge. We already
create a wall that may permanently separate us from that person. If this is so,
how can we convert them? How can can they feel the love of Jesus? – Marino J.
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