Sincere Jesus

Today’s Gospel Text:  Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful. 37 "Judge not, and you will not be judged; condemn not, and you will not be condemned; forgive, and you will be forgiven; 38 give, and it will be given to you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For the measure you give will be the measure you get back." Luke 6:36-38

Reflection: The foundation of God’s working is based on truth.

As humans we sometimes do feel that God may be playing the game with us and with humanity.  Instead he is honest to the core and if we feel the way we do then it is more an interpretation and analysis performed by our mind, which seeks to judge God.

It is like a child who sits in judgment over his father’s action, with his limited knowledge of the circumstances and situation, in which his father may have acted.

How can we sit in judgment over God with our limited understanding of the multi-dimensional working of the immortal being?

Here in the Gospel text we see the sincerity of God working when Jesus without beating around the bush voices out that which first needs to be voiced out, on priority. 

He does it because that is the order of truth. He operates on the basis of a principle and law which he will not easily budge from. 

Whereas when humans look at it then they tend to see things from their petty narrow angle.

“Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful” – that is the first and the most important statement that Jesus makes and it is, in the order of priority, first.

The rest of the statement he makes, whether it is judging, forgiveness or giving, they are all extensions of a merciful action and qualify for mercifulness.

In other words, if we want to be merciful then we shouldn’t be judging easily, in order to condemn, forgive people no matter what the odds, and give freely.

What is more this action affirms our son ship as God’s children.

Prayer:  Lord, strengthen me to be merciful as I seek to imitate your character.

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