July 27, 2015 Monday,
17th Week in Ordinary Time 1st Reading:
Exodus 32:15-24’30-34
Gospel: Mt 13:31–35
Jesus put another parable before the people, “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, that a man took and sowed in his field.
“It is smaller than all other seeds, but once it has fully grown, it is bigger than any garden plant; like a tree, the birds come and rest in its branches.”
He told them another parable, “The kingdom of heaven is like the yeast that a woman took and buried in three measures of flour until the whole mass of dough began to rise.”
Jesus taught all this to the crowds by means of parables; he did not say anything to them without using a parable. So what the Prophet had said was fulfilled: I will speak in parables. I will proclaim things kept secret since the beginning of the world.
D@iGITAL-EXPERIENCE
(Daily Gospel in the Assimilated Life Experience)
God’s ways are small but his handiworks are great. We see the same dynamics in the development of his kingdom here on earth. As the smallest mustard seed can bring forth a big tree, so realities that are otherwise insignificant can also bring out the best of God’s kingdom.
The kingdom in the dream of King Nebuchadnezzar shows to us what God’s kingdom is not. (Dn 4:7ff). In his dream the King saw a tree of great height with its top touching the heavens and its leaves beautiful and its fruits abundant. The king narrated to Daniel: “Under it the wild beasts found shade, in its branches the birds of the air nested; all men ate of it.” But there was a sentinel from heaven who announced that the tree would be cut down. In Daniel’s interpretation, the tree was the king himself who was about to be banished because he did not recognize God. Unlike Nebuchadnezzar’s kingdom that became too dependent upon human power and banked so much upon the strength of one man, God’s kingdom is founded on the humble and the meek.
It is not by accident that God made human beings physically small, even smaller than carabaos, giraffes, elephants and dinosaurs. Human beings are never meant to be powerful and great but humble and blest. In being humble one brings his humanity to perfection and lives his life to the full. Even Physics teaches us that low vehicles are more stable and can run faster. God also wants his kingdom to be founded in humility, unlike the kingdom envisioned by the power-hungry Nebuchadnezzar.
If we want to be part of the unfolding of God’s kingdom, we must be ready to lose in order to gain; to surrender in order to win; to die in order to live; to give in order to receive; to serve in order to reign. – Rev. Fr. Dan Domingo P. delos Angeles, Jr., DM . Email:[email protected]. Website: www.frdan.org.
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