Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Theme: "Welcoming the Lord Jesus Christ"
Text: Luke 9:51-56
51. When the time drew near for him to be taken up, Jesus resolved to go to Jerusalem. 52. He sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans to prepare a place for him. 53. But they did not receive him, because he was going to Jerusalem. 54. When his disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?" 55. Jesus turned to them and rebuked them, saying, "You do not know what kind of spirit you are of. 56. For the Son of Man did not come to destroy people's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.
Let us remember:
Jesus Christ, the Son of Man came, not to destroy the souls of men, but to save them. This message is one of the most ignored in the Bible. Indeed, each time we make a judgment that condemns a person who believes in Jesus, we offend the mission of Jesus. We tend to believe that it is the holy people who must seek God. We have succeeded in categorizing people according to a human nomenclature. Sins are sorted by classification of gravity. When we commit a sin, we can even be excluded from the group. The day we launch the call to people who want to convert, we tell them, come as you are; God calls you in your state. And when people are baptized and enter the Church, holiness is required of them. Those who set this bar high, themselves do not shine by a better example. The day a person commits a “serious” sin, they are brought before the Disciplinary Council, judged, and punished. Worse, sometimes their parents are also punished. Sometimes a spouse is punished for the wrong done by their partner. But Jesus teaches us that he came, not to lose the souls of men, but to save them. Every sinner needs Jesus; as for the saints, they can go and wait for us in paradise. We must welcome the Lord Jesus Christ into our hearts and stop trying to kill the faith of others with blind judgments. May each one fight to remove the beam from his own eye instead of seeing the speck in the eye of another. Have a great Wednesday. Amen
Alain Louz.-
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