Reflection for October 6, Friday of the Twenty-sixth Week in Ordinary Time: Luke 10:13-16

Gospel: Luke 10:13-16

Jesus said to them, “Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 

But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. And as for you, Capernaum, ‘Will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to the netherworld.’ Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

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Reflection:

Would you listen to Jesus’ call of repentance?

 Repentance is a perpetual call from Jesus and we must listen to this call. What will happen if we would not listen?  There would be punishment and it will not certainly come from God; punishment will originate from the outcome of our sinfulness.

For example, the sin of adultery some spouses engaged in this bestial act notwithstanding the danger and punishment that would befall them. Where would this kind of sin eventually lead? This will eventually lead to despair, nothingness and desolation.  

There’s a lot more examples of those who did not listen, so they received their deserved punishment. Hence, why not repent and listen to the voice of God who always calls us every second of the day to change our ways and walk away from sin? The longer we commit sin the deeper we dig a hole for us into the deepest abyss of hell.

We therefore have to listen to Jesus and walk away from sin while we still have time.  – Marino J. Dasmarinas