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Let’s us ask ourselves today, have we truly loved? All that God has given to us and taught was in love and for love. Are we so caught up with legalities and pristine order that we are made blind to love.

It is only through Jesus that we are made holy, blameless and pure. Let us ask always choose love, to see love in all things, to give love, to act in and for love. To love and serve our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ so as to give our one triune God Glory. Amen.

GOSPEL
Luke 6:1–5

While Jesus was going through a field of grain on a sabbath, his disciples were picking the heads of grain, rubbing them in their hands, and eating them. Some Pharisees said, “Why are you doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?” Jesus said to them in reply, “Have you not read what David did when he and those who were with him were hungry? How he went into the house of God, took the bread of offering, which only the priests could lawfully eat, ate of it, and shared it with his companions?” Then he said to them, “The Son of Man is lord of the sabbath.”

There is indeed a time for everything yet do we only want to feast and dance? Holding on tightly to pleasures alone, leads to sin for we lose sight of everything that draws us close to God. It is only when we empty ourselves of worldliness that we can truly encounter God and be filled with His Graces.

To be filled by Him Who truly loves us, can we remain unrepentant? Can we hold on tightly, even stubbornly to our old way of lives refusing to bear our crosses? Refusing to be born into new life with Him, to be cleansed, to be made pure? All that is required from us is a “Yes Lord, I humbly come before You. Help me.”

Lord Jesus, help me to always remain steadfast in Your love. Let me never revert to my sinful way of life otherwise I will surely burst at the seams and lose everything; my Lord, my God. Amen

GOSPEL
Luke 5:33–39

The scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus,
“The disciples of John the Baptist fast often and offer prayers, and the disciples of the Pharisees do the same; but yours eat and drink.” Jesus answered them, “Can you make the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? But the days will come, and when the bridegroom is taken away from them, then they will fast in those days.” And he also told them a parable. “No one tears a piece from a new cloak to patch an old one. Otherwise, he will tear the new and the piece from it will not match the old cloak. Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be ruined. Rather, new wine must be poured into fresh wineskins. And no one who has been drinking old wine desires new, for he says, ‘The old is good.’”