Reflection for November 29, Wednesday of the Thirty-fourth Week in Ordinary Time: Luke 21:12-19

Gospel: Luke 21:12-19

(Jesus said to His disciples) Before the end happens, however, they will seize and persecute you, they will hand you over to the synagogues and to prisons, and they will have you led before kings and governors because of my name. It will lead to your giving testimony. 

Remember, you are not to prepare your defense beforehand, for I myself shall give you a wisdom in speaking that all your adversaries will be powerless to resist or refute. You will even be handed over by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends, and they will put some of you to death. You will be hated by all because of my name, but not a hair on your head will be destroyed. By your perseverance you will secure your lives.”

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Reflection:

Have you already suffered for faithfully following Jesus and do you think that all of these sufferings are all worth it? Every suffering that we go through for Jesus is all worth it. The people of this world will surely not agree and understand but it’s all worth it! 

If we suffer poverty for Jesus’ sake, if we are persecuted for following Jesus. And if the events in our lives are not turning out well based on worldly standards because we choose to follow Jesus. Let us not worry for someday in the great beyond we will surely receive our reward. 

Are all the worldly appendages that we blindly chase and have worth it? No it’s not because it can slip out of our hands anytime. So, why are so many of us are so blinded by these worldly things? We covet it as if our life hinges on it. 

At the end of our lives only one will matter and that’s none other than our faithfulness to Jesus. Let us therefore strive to get closer to Jesus than obsessively striving to possess the fragile and passing offerings of this world. – Marino J. Dasmarinas