May the Lord give you peace and happiness in the Holy Spirit.
It is on 6th June 2024.
Are we fused or confused in love?
We reflect on 2 Timothy 2:8-15 and Mark 12:28-34. God’s word cannot be imprisoned, but the messengers of the Word could end up being in prison.
There are very few things in our lives we tend to forget: God and neighbour. We conveniently forget God and our neighbour at times. That is why we all need to remember and remind as many times as possible to love God and one another.
In the first reading, St. Paul reminds Timothy to remember what God has done in the life of a believer and to remind one another what God would do to us.
To love means to bear the hardships, troubles and burdens of the other.
Moving from self-obsession to selflessness is true love.
Expecting the other to love the way we love poisons the intention and objectives of loving. By constantly reaching out to others in need, we relate better with God.
God is always faithful indeed even when we are not faithful. Our faithfulness to the vocation we received from God must be seen in our works just not in our talks.
In the Gospel we are strongly reminded that we need to love God as the most important response to God’s invitation to participate divine life.
We cannot compromise God’s love for anything. We need to complement our love towards the others as we care for ourselves. Our fulfilment in loving God needs to be seen in loving others.
We cannot but loving other because we love God. The expressions of love of God must not neglect or undermine loving others as we are so immersed in loving ourselves. Jesus teaches us that all the other commandments and laws have the flow and origin from the love of God and others.
In most instances of our lives, we never forget to love ourselves. We might be loving ourselves more than we should and wilfully neglecting and forgetting to love the other.
We have more than one reasons to love ourselves so intensely and meticulously while we have millions of excuses why we could not love the others.
May we remind one another to love God and others as we spend most of our resources for our betterment only.
May you have a good day.