may the Lord give you peace and health in the Holy Spirit.
It is 13th October 2021.
We reflect on Romans 2:1-11 and the Gospel from Luke 11:42-46.
No one can claim that they are better than the other. Everyone in front of God is same. God has no favorites whatsoever. We all have to go through pain and suffering in our lives. We all have areas to improve in our lives. At times we are quick to blame others for anything that goes wrong.
Some of us think that by blaming and pointing our fingers to others we can hide our faults. Life becomes meaningful and beautiful when we begin to look at others with some worth. We need to inculcate in ourselves that everyone else got some good things as we also serve and the areas of improvement as we have in our life.
Saint Paul admonishes everyone today that by condemning and criticizing and crucifying others for what they have done it’s like throwing dirt on ourselves. Those who do not do anything always end up finding some spots of areas of concern.
Are we like Pharisees who carry the burden of sinfulness and selfishness yet very quick to find fault with others. We all need to learn one thing from this readings that we need to place ourselves in there positions and the work they have performed. We all have the demons within to be disciplined. The surge of our hearts need to be trained and traced in order to be erased. In No way we can win a battle of ourselves by fighting with others. We tend to incite violence when we begin to hate the other person as we view them. Just because we are faithful to our religion on the way of worship we do not need to look down upon Others.
God does not lose his temper just like us. So there is no way we can tell the wrath of God is on the others. At times we express our human guilt as the a divine wrath. Because God is so merciful we can repent and return to the Lord and that’s what pleases the Lord.
The responsorial psalm recounts telling, “ Lord you repay each man according to his deeds.”
In the gospel Saint Luke points out that how the lawyers trying to fence round the law by introducing sub loss within the loss according to their conveniences. In reply to this attitude Jesus objects the convenient heavy burden on the people of God. But commandments of the Lord aim at taking us closer to God and look like God’s children but care and love and mercy shown to others in this society.
The tithing Is the acknowledgement of having received the fruitfulness from God. May we try to please God by including others and respecting them as there.
May the Lord continue to bless you to be courageous in accepting others as they are.