FIRST READING:Jeremiah 38:4-6,8-10 / SECOND READING: Hebrews 12:1-4 / GOSPEL: Luke 12:49-53
Have you experienced restlessness? Especially when you want to do something and have put all your mind and heart upon it? Yes, you feel and whatever may be the circumstances or condition, you would finish the task you have started. In the readings today we encounter prophet Jeremiah, whose heart was set on fire for God. He spoke on behalf of YAHWEH. He did not even hesitate to sacrifice his life inorder to speak what was revealed to him. In the second reading we read how the author suggests us to run steadily in the path we have opted or started. The faith through Jesus would bring us to perfection. In the Gospel Jesus tells his disciples that he has not come to bring peace but fire on earth. All these three persons are active and thirsty to do what they started. God as the starting and the end point. Living Christianity is not that easy as we think. Following the footsteps of Jesus is not bed of roses. If you begin to follow Jesus and live according to what he has said, surely you will not see peace around you, but a fire. People would be divided in the name of Jesus, in what you do or say. Are you ready to set fire in the name of Jesus? To bring the Good News that all are loved and we are one family. To help people in need. To see Jesus in all. If you start today you will first feel the fire in your heart and you will see the FIRE around you.
Quote: "Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't them all by ourselves."― Laura Esquivel
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