Readings
I - 2 Kings 17: 5-8, 13-15, 18
II - Mt. 7: 1-5
LOVE OTHERS AS YOURSELF
“Love your neighbour as yourself” (Mt. 22: 39) is the crux of the Gospel passage today. Though we are weak and culpable, we least desire to be judged by anybody. But we are often rash in our criticism, calculations and judgment towards others. In today’s Gospel passage Jesus says, “For with the judgment you make you will be judged”. When we are prone to judge others let us apply the strategy Jesus followed in the case of the woman caught in adultery was brought to him by those men who wanted to stone her to death: “He that is without sin among you, let him cast a stone at her” (Jn. 8: 7).
We are liberal to ourselves but very strict towards others like those Scribes and the Pharisees. If anyone wish to exceed in righteous than that of the Scribes and the Pharisees, stop judging others and start judging yourself. Correct your mistakes first than correcting others. This is Christian living.
Task: whenever we are tempted to criticise or judge others, let us hold and examine ourselves projecting those criticism or accusations upon us.
Prayer: “Lord Jesus, help me to love my neighbour as myself”
