Gospel: Luke 19:41-44
For the days are coming upon you when your enemies
will raise a palisade against you; they will encircle you and hem you in on all
sides. They will smash you to the ground and your children within you, and they
will not leave one stone upon another within you because you did not recognize
the time of your visitation.
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Reflection:
The story is
told about a husband who was a drug pusher and addict. He was counseled by his
wife to stop his self-destructing vices. But the husband ignored his wife’s advice
after a few months the husband was caught by the police and was
imprisoned for life.
What would happen to us if we would not listen to
meaningful advice?
When we ignore meaningful advice, something that we
don’t like will come upon us. We will not know when will it come to us but it
will certainly come to us. So what are we going to do if someone is giving us
meaningful advice? We have to listen and reform so that nothing untoward would
happen to us.
Why did Jesus weep over the people Jerusalem? Because
they did not listen to the messengers of God who wanted nothing but their
welfare. They shut their eyes and ears to God as if God did not
exist.
As we continue with our journey in this world there
would be people who will give us meaningful advice. People who will tell us to
disengage from a friend or people who will tell us to stop doing wrong.
We have to listen to them not because they know better than us. We have to listen for the reason that God sent them to us so that we could straighten our crooked and sinful lives. – Marino J. Dasmarinas
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