Sino na ang nagmahal? Sino na ang nasaktan? Kapag nagmahal ka humanda
kang masaktan, sapagkat sa pagmamahal lumalabas ang puso mo para sa iyong
minamahal, papalayo sa iyong mga makasariling hangarin, patungo sa kapakanan ng
minamahal mo.
Christ invites us to follow Him. "Come follow me" is an
invitation of Jesus towards discipleship. He invites us to love like Him. It
entails, like in Jesus’ case, walking towards Calvary and ultimately rising in
Easter morn. Suffering and difficulties are inevitable in following Jesus; in
loving like Jesus up to the point of dying. To follow Jesus is to die with Him.
Are you ready to die? To die of your selfishness? To die of your sinfulness?
Are you ready to die in the name of love?
Being misinterpreted is one of the pains in following Jesus. The Pharisees
misinterpreted Him as He dined with sinners and tax collectors. But Jesus
continued to do His mission by following the will of the Father. He rectified
such error about Him and His mission. It is easier to simply go with the flow;
to agree to what is socially acceptable. Our desire to please this world should
not compromise our proclamation of the truth. Truth is our priority more than
anything else. Truth is the fertile ground on which genuine love grows.
With all these difficulties and challenges of following Jesus, our
consolation is the love of God for us, which becomes more and more evident to
us as we follow Him. Upon the death of his mother, the grieving Isaac found consolation
in the love of his wife. In our sorrows and seeming failures, we find
consolation in our families, to mothers and fathers, and ultimately in our
experience of God's love. In our struggle to be faithful to God's will and to the
mission He entrusts to us, we find consolation in the heart of Jesus that had
been pierced out of His love for us. Minamahal tayo ng Dios. Ang kanyang
pagmamahal ay sapat na upang ibsan ang ating lumbay.
For the call we have received (to be holy like our heavenly Father) and
His love that consoles us in our trials, we give thanks to the Lord!
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