Readings
I - Eph. 1:1-10
II - Lk. 11: 47-54
BE ORIGINAL AND BE REAL
In today’s Gospel passage, Jesus reprimands the Pharisees, the Scribes and the lawyers for their hypocrisy and spiritual blindness. They built monuments for the prophets whom their ancestors killed, falsely projecting that they did it as an atonement for killing the prophets. They reproved the act of their ancestors while in reality they were not better than their ancestors. Jesus cursed them for their spiritual blindness. Because they were the interpreters of Law and Prophesy but failed to recognise the Messiah in Jesus. Their pride, ego and selfishness prevented them from discovering the Messiah in Jesus.
We are sometimes no better than the Pharisees. We wish to appear to be what we are not so that we might be appreciated, affirmed and kept high by the people around us. This is hypocritical living. Live your life unmasked and be natural. In faith, humility and simplicity accept yourself so that we might have a large heart to accept others. Be real, be original and glorify God with your life.
