Suy Niệm Tin Mừng thứ Ba Tuần 16 Thường Niên
REFLECTION
In the first reading Israel, led by Moses, is delivered
by Yahweh's great works from Pharoah and Egypt on their route to the
promised land.
There is in today's Gospel a great and
practical truth. It may very well be that a person finds himself closer
to people who are not related to him than he does to his own
relatives. The deepest relationship of life is not merely a blood
relationship. It is the relationship of mind to mind and heart to
heart.. It is when people have common aims, common principles, common
interests and a common goal in life that they become really and truly
related.
Now let us remember the definition of the Kingdom of
God. The Kingdom of God is a society upon earth where God's will is as
perfectly done as it is in heaven. It was Jesus' supreme quality that
He, of all people, alone succeeded in fully achieving that identity of
His will and the will of God. Therefore, all those whose aim in life is
to make God's will their will, are the true relatives of Jesus. We
speak of all people being the sons and daughters of God. In one very
real and very precious sense that is true because God loves saints and
sinners. But it is when a person puts his will in line with God's will,
that a real relationship begins. This is the only way to true and
lasting happiness in this life.
When we refuse to accept
God's will, we bring upon ourselves nothing but pain and trouble of
heart. But when we look up to God and say: "Do with me as you wish",
then there is the way to joy.
Jesus is a demanding master,
for he will share a person's heart with nothing and with no one. Love
is necessarily exclusive. We can only love one person at a time and
serve one Master at a time. That is hard, but there is this great
wonder. When we give ourselves absolutely to Christ, we become one of
the family of God.
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