Wednesday of the Second Week
of Lent
Gospel Matthew 20:17-28
Sanctify
them by the TRUTH, Your Word is the TRUTH ( John 17:17)
The TRUTH will set you free. (John 8:22)
Dear
Brothers and sisters in christ jesus, it is a known fact that today we are fed with lies, take for
any media outlets we will find a different world altogether. But this is
wrapped in a beautiful and colourful sheet. Truth is presented as lies and Lies are truth. This is done for the
vested interests of some individuals and institutions. The fact is that truth is
hijacked and
lies are fed with biassed agenda and vain hopes and manipulate us.
In the first
reading, when Jeremiah conveyed to the people of God’s
message, they did not take it well. They considered it uncomfortable and
painful, and he is seen as a trouble maker. They were not ready to accept the
message.
The message was that they were disobedient,and
unfaithful and rejected God's ways and walked in the wrong direction.
However, they were happy with the message because they made themselves comfortable with lies, false ways, false messages that’s why they were not ready to listen instead they thought of getting him out of their way. They were hijacked by lies and want to go their own way. So plotted against him, even to kill him.
He spoke the Truth from God, declared the message of God, defended them from the wrath of God. all that he wanted for good for them. But the consequence was different for speaking Truth. He fulfilled his calling, speaking truth and good of the people.
In the Gospel, he mentions again about the truth of his passion, suffering, death and resurrection. He will be mocked, dragged and rejected. But the disciples had different understanding of Messiah, they thought of Political Messiah. That’s why the mother of James and John comes to ask for privileged seats at His right and left side. Even other disciples too were fueled with anger and jealousy about this tactic.
But he makes them aware about the Truth of following Him, that they have to carry the cross, endure the pain and suffering and be ready to lay down one's life for the Truth. They have to resemble Him in every way. Jesus said “ I am the Truth, the Way and the Life”
Dear
friends, therefore when we look at society or the world in general it does not
want to face the Truth, in fact it wants to silence the Truth and people who
speak Truth. We witness it everyday.
Instead some individuals and institutions want to replace it with their propaganda and agenda, manipulating and dominating others. And also feeding with lies, showing complacency and compromisation in everything thus leading in the wrong direction. Sometimes we do not know this but it is done in a subtle way.
Though
we may face hurdles, though people are against us plotting our destruction, we
are invited to empower people with Truth, not with pleasing , sugar coated
words which leads people away from reality.
It's a reminder that we need to be liberated from the clutches of manipulative and false notions and be ambassadors of Truth. Truth hurts but it will set free.
So stand fast with your loins girded in
truth, clothed with righteousness as a breastplate (Ephesians 6:14)
Truthful lips endure forever, the lying
tongue, for only a moment.(Proverbs 12:19)
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