LOVE COMES BEFORE ALL! ~ CookingFood.Org

“HONEY FROM THE ROCK”

Friday, 1st July 2016,

Thirteenth Week of Ordinary Time

Amos 8: 4-6, 9-12,

Ps 118: 2,10,20,30,40,131;

Mt 9: 9-13

LOVE COMES BEFORE ALL!

Imagine a doctor who had no interest in people who were sick, instead was interested only in people who had good health. He would have very little to do since healthy people do not usually need to doctor. This is the argument Christ uses in today’s Gospel when he was attacked for being friendly with sinners. It would have been a waste for him to come on earth if he was not going to do something to reconcile sinful man with his Father. And we know how successful he was as in this instance where not only was a sinner converted but later became the Apostle Matthew. What was it in Christ that drew sinners to him? It was the evident love that he had for people and the mercy he showed. Where the self-righteous Pharisees rushed in to condemn, Christ looked for the good in every person and found that people responded to his loving approach. Christ did not come for those who considered themselves just, but rather, he came to call sinners to freedom from sin and to turn them towards God, and he did so by being one with them.

Prayer: Father help us to be mirrors reflecting Your love and mercy around us. Amen.