Reflection on Jun25th 2019
An Easy Way
An Easy Way
Genesis 13:2, 5-18; Psalm 15:2-5; Matthew 7:6, 12-14
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God asked Abram to leave his country and his father’s household to the land He is going to show. What God meant was to leave everything. May be because Abram was not fully aware of God, he took his nephew with him too. Whenever, we take decisions on our own against the request of God, what we can expect is only problems. The first reading explains the problem Abram had to face because of Lot, his nephew and his people. If we do not fall because of the problems, God shows a way to overcome them.
God has chosen a set of people, descendents of Abram, who later became Abraham, to send His Son to the world. His Son, Jesus chose a set of people and gave directions to another set of people, the Church, to spread the Kingdom of God. His laws and blessings were given only to the people given to him by the Father. Without the guidance of the Holy Spirit of the Father, those laws and blessings could be misunderstood and misused.
For those who tell the laws of the Lord are hard to follow, Jesus introduced a very easy method. "Do to others whatever you would have them do to you.” If we expect something from others, we have no excuse to say it is hard to do it for others. Let us follow this without trying to interpret it in our way.
Link to Readings
God asked Abram to leave his country and his father’s household to the land He is going to show. What God meant was to leave everything. May be because Abram was not fully aware of God, he took his nephew with him too. Whenever, we take decisions on our own against the request of God, what we can expect is only problems. The first reading explains the problem Abram had to face because of Lot, his nephew and his people. If we do not fall because of the problems, God shows a way to overcome them.
God has chosen a set of people, descendents of Abram, who later became Abraham, to send His Son to the world. His Son, Jesus chose a set of people and gave directions to another set of people, the Church, to spread the Kingdom of God. His laws and blessings were given only to the people given to him by the Father. Without the guidance of the Holy Spirit of the Father, those laws and blessings could be misunderstood and misused.
For those who tell the laws of the Lord are hard to follow, Jesus introduced a very easy method. "Do to others whatever you would have them do to you.” If we expect something from others, we have no excuse to say it is hard to do it for others. Let us follow this without trying to interpret it in our way.