DO YOU WANT GOD TO DISAPPOINTED IN YOU?

 *WEDNESDAY, September 20, 2023* 

Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Priest, and Paul Chong Hasang, and their Companions, Martyrs 


First Reading. 1 Timothy 3: 14-16

Psalm. 111: 1-6 (R.2a)

Gospel. Luke 7: 31-35


TOPIC FOR REFLECTION


 *DO NOT ALLOW JESUS TO BE DISAPPOINTED IN YOU* 


Since you were born, you have been hearing about the Gospel of Christ, to what effect has it in your life?


In all your years as a Christian, what one virtue have you learnt from God?


If Christ is loving, are you loving?

If Chris is good, are you good?

If Christ is kind, are you kind?

If Christ is humble, are you humble?

If Christ is gentle, are you gentle? 

If Christ is merciful, are you merciful?

If Christ is generous, are you generous? 

If Christ calls you his friend, do you call others your friend?

If Christ sees you as one with Him, do you see others as one with you?

If Christ perseveres, do you persevere?

If Christ is holy, are you making an effort to become holy?

If Christ enters heaven, why don't you want to enter heaven with Him?


The fact is that we could go on listing the virtues of Jesus and comparing them with our daily ways of life. It is important to know that we ought to imitate Christ to its fullness because if we do not imbibe the character of Jesus, He will be disappointed in us.


Jesus' character is supposed to become our character, and that is when people can truly say we are children of God.


It is when imitate Christ that He will not be disappointed in us.


Unlike today's Gospel when Jesus expresses His disappointment to the people of His time.


He said, “To what then shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to one another, 

‘We piped to you, and you did not dance; 

We wailed, and you did not weep.’

John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine; and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ 

Now, the Son of man has come eating and drinking; and you say, ‘Behold, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners! Yet wisdom is justified by all her children.”


The question is, what else do we expect Jesus to do so we can repent?


Please, let us imitate Jesus. It is sharp contrary if we are in the opposite direction.


If Jesus is good, why are we bad?

If Jesus is merciful, why can't we be merciful to one another? 

If Jesus is humble, why are we proud? 

If Jesus is generous, why are we stingy?

If Jesus loves us, why do we hate? etc.


Similarly, as St. Paul wrote to Timothy, he said: you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth. Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of our religion: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.


Therefore, Jesus will not be disappointed in us if we live like another Him (Christ).


 *Peace ✌️ be with you.* 


 *Rev. Segun Oladeji, CRS.* 

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