Gospel: Matthew 11:28-30
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Reflection:
The story is
told about a young man who was struggling to find his place in this
world. He was already at the point of surrender. He murmured to
himself, “I am a total failure” in the abyss of his frustration he thought of
ending his life.
Until he was
advised by a friend to seek God and surrender every burdens that he has in his
heart. So, he went to Holy Mass regularly and he read his bible, after a few
weeks he developed a deep friendship with Jesus and he surrendered his
everything to Him.
Many of us
have this tendency to allow ourselves to be eaten up by the frenetic pace
and materialism of this world. We get too busy in fact very busy because we
want to satisfy our many temporal wants. But come to think of it, why are we
punishing ourselves too much just to satisfy our worldly desires? Why are many
of us favoring this world over God when what we earn from this world can
actually be taken from us anytime? When we can go out of this world
anytime?
In our gospel
for today, Jesus invites us all to go to Him. We who are so busy with this
world, we who tend to forget the primacy of God over this world. When are we
going to open our hearts to this invitation of Jesus? When we are already old
and sickly? Let us not wait for that time to come. Let us build a relationship
with Jesus now and let us respond to His invitation now. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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