Sunday, June 6, 2021
Bible Reflections I 07.06.2021- Monday I Indraya Manna
Readings: I - 2Cor. 1:1-7
II - Mt. 5:1-12
THE BEATTITUDES
In today’s Gospel, Jesus calls those labelled and branded by the world as ‘cursed’, ‘ill-fated’ and a ‘threat’ because they choose to live by high ideals of life, as ‘Blessed’, encourages and consoles them with the reward that awaits them. With the Sermon on the Mount Jesus sets the parameter for Gospel living, the sufferings on its account and the reward for enduring false accusations and sufferings inflicted on this accord.
Whenever we are pushed into tight corner in our choices for decision making, may we dare to choose God again and again and suffer for the same so that we may hear in the silence of our hearts God calling us ‘Blessed’ and filling us with His peace and joy. In our striving to live for God we may have to suffer but let us remember that we have Christ with us to standby, understand, help and support, for the Scripture says, “since he himself has gone through suffering and testing, he is able to help us as we are being tested” (Heb. 2:18) and prove ourselves as Christians and the followers of Jesus. May we in the silence of our hearts keep praying the prayer of Jesus, “lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from all that is evil”.
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