Gospel: John 12:24-26
Whoever serves me must follow me, and
where I am, there also will my servant be. The Father will honor whoever serves
me.”
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Reflection:
Do you love your life in this world?
Jesus gives us today a contradictory or baffling
statement by saying: “Whoever loves his life loses it and whoever hates his
life in this world will preserve it for eternal life.” How could this
be?
The simple answer to this paradoxical statement by
Jesus is this: We love our life if we love the trappings of this world such as
wealth, power and other worldly possession. It also includes other
self-centered attitudes such as greed, lust, arrogance, egotism to name a few.
We will certainly lose our life if we could identify to any of these characteristics.
We hate our life in this world but preserve it for
eternal life if we have Jesus like behaviors such as: Humility, Selflessness,
Prayerfulness, Kindheartedness, Mercy, Forgiveness, Compassion and many more Jesus
like virtues.
Therefore we are given two choices: To love our life
in this world or two hate it. Surely there would be those who would choose to
love their life in this world but for what price?
The problem of loving our present life for the sake of
this world is we are slowly but surely closing the door for Jesus to enter our
life. Yet we open it widely for Satan to enter and eventually drive our
life.
Discover the true meaning of life by serving Christ
and by loving Him. Discover the true meaning of life by denying yourself of the
many useless and sinful excesses of this world.
Have you already discovered the true meaning of your
life? – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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