Thursday,
August 10, 2017
19th Week in Ordinary Time 1st Reading:
2 Cor 9:6-10
Gospel: John 12:24-26
Jesus said to his disciples, “Truly, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much fruit. “Those who love their life destroy it, and those who despise their life in this world keep it for everlasting life. “Whoever wants to serve me, let him follow me and wherever I am, there shall my servant be also. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.”
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in
the Assimilated Life Experience)
An old lady goes to the bank bringing a lot of old wristwatches. “What’s with all those wrist watches?” the guard asks. The old lady replies: “I’m submitting them to the bank for time deposit.”
The banking industry is telling us that time can make money grow. Business itself considers time a treasure! Time assumes similar value both at the social and spiritual level. At the social level, time heals wounds and reconciles people. At the spiritual level, time can make or break a person. A single minute has brought salvation to many repentant people, much as a few seconds have brought hardened hearts to damnation.
We were all endowed with 24 hours per day at birth. With so much time equally apportioned to every one at birth, endless possibilities are available to human beings depending on their wise use of time.
There is no wiser use of time than spending it with God. In today’s Gospel Jesus said: “Where I am, there my servant be”. Now, where is the Lord found in a way most accessible to human beings? Jesus has given us his address: “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, you do unto me” (Matthew 25:40).
One who spends time with God should not refuse to spend time with the least, the last and the lost.
Because of God’s preferential option for the poor, being with God without being available to those in need makes God uncomfortable. God becomes uncomfortable because he knows that it can lead to hypocrisy. He dislikes hypocrites. The Book of Revelations tells us that he vomits those who are neither hot nor cold (Rev. 3:16). “Vomit” is a figurative way of referring to the irreversible condemnation the hypocrites call upon themselves. Only street dogs eat back their vomit. But God is not d-o-g. God is G.o.d. Once God vomits us, we end up in hell, and there is no turning back to God’s presence.
So not to make God uncomfortable in our company, let us match our willingness to spend time with God with a strong resolve to be available to our brothers and sisters in need. Such and such alone constitutes wise use of time. – (Atty.) Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM
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