Tuesday, December 6, 2022

In Consummatione | End of The Age

"So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and throw them into the furnace of fire, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth" — Mat 13: 49-50

 



Dear friends in Christ Jesus, as we all believe that the world will end one day and for us personally it will be during our death from this world. Only God is immortal and we are all mortals. As Christians the hope that we have is eternal life and this eternal life is possible only through Jesus.

Jesus came to this world to save us and make sure we reach heaven. Indeed he has made it possible and easy for us by his passion and death on the cross. It is on this foundation that we all need to build our faith. Jesus has already saved us and we only need to claim it. We can claim it by being his true disciple that is by obeying what he taught.  It all depends on how strong we build and with what we build our faith. Better to build it with gold because, at the end times even if it gets burned it will only get purified further.

Our God is loving and merciful for sure. He is a good God. The world we live in has both good forces and evil forces working. We need to recognize these good forces and be part of it. Don't let the evil forces consume you. Let the Holy Spirit guide us. 

God respects human freedom. As God respects our freedom we also need to respect his freedom during the end times, during the judgment. After giving us all the grace possible to save ourselves, if we don't make use of it then we can't blame God for sending us to hell. I respect the freedom of God. Do you?


Reflection on Matthew 13: 31-58 by Fr. George Joseph SVD   
(Listen to the Podcast here)

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