God is patient, God is kind, but how can our loving Father reach us if we will not listen? If we will not follow His commandments? We may not utter it out loud but our life choices, our actions, our attitudes towards others all scream out to Him, “I don’t want You in my life!” Are we then surprised when He is truly absent in our lives?
Have you observed children playing and after a while some may end up quarreling? One may shout at the top of his lungs, “You’re a cheat! you crossed the line!” And the other might respond, “Why should I listen to you when you kept doing it yourself? You’re the cheater!”
Yes we are called to lead one another to holiness and there will be times when we will need to admonish one in love and truth. But we can only do so in with Jesus and in Jesus, hence we need to constantly examine our own conscience and be reconciled with our heavenly Father.
Let us all be Holy as our heavenly Father is Holy. Amen
FIRST READING
2 Kings 17:5–8, 13–15a, 18
GOSPEL
Matthew 7:1–5
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Stop judging, that you may not be judged. For as you judge, so will you be judged, and the measure with which you measure will be measured out to you. Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me remove that splinter from your eye,’ while the wooden beam is in your eye? You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your brother’s eye.”
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