Judgment

Today’s Gospel Text: "To what then shall I compare the men of this generation, and what are they like? 32 They are like children sitting in the market place and calling to one another, 'We piped to you, and you did not dance; we wailed, and you did not weep.'

33 For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine; and you say, 'He has a demon.' 34 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!' 35 Yet wisdom is justified by all her children." Luke 7:31-35

Reflection: Why does a whole generation get categorized and why not a few of the notorious ones not identified? Is it right for us to categorize whole generations or an entire race or a group of people?

Even otherwise we do it? Sometimes those who seem to exhibit a little extra nobility of heart tend not categorize a generation, group or a race?

Though it may not always be right to categorize a whole race or a particular race or religion, yet in certain matters it is unavoidable. Moment you belong to a particular group, you carry a tag.

Are we still justified in all matters? Human judgment is almost always frail to fault.

Suppose, a travel advisory warns of terrorism in a particular nation, then it would be foolish on anyone’s part to consider the whole nation as a group of terrorist or on the other hand not to be cautious in their travel there.

The human mind thinks in terms of categorization. A nation declares a war on another and the enemy cannot be sitting down to identify who in that nation is good and who is bad and bomb it accordingly unless individuals and groups, except for a cowardice reason, have come out openly to renounce the wrong of its nation. Even then they could become victim’s war.

In the scripture text we have God’s judgment concerning this particular generation. Similarly we have God’s judgment concerning the entire human race: “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” Rom 3:23

But God is not unjust when he proclaims entire generations, nations, race or groups as sinners, he gives us a solution; we need to come out of these groups and turn to God:

Therefore come out from them, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch nothing unclean; then I will welcome you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty." 2 Cor 6:17-18

Prayer: Lord, separate me from a generation that does not accept your salvation, even if it means being judged by them as being individualistic.

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