+ Jesus’ teaching on judging is a difficult one for us as human beings, because, in our tainted human estate, we
like to follow more an animal instinct of retaliation than of reasoned and holy
thinking! We must try with God’s help to regard others as God regards all of us
– imperfect and sinful souls – who, while prone to make mistakes – can, with
the added impetus of divine grace now, rise above animal instincts and
appetites and administer true and right judgment and charity: we must remove the enormous beam of
self-righteousness, and see things from the vantage point of humility, poverty
and littleness!
It is
only then that we can truly be useful to one another in building up the Kingdom
of God, in increasing God’s family, in seeing to one another’s needs out of
true and heartfelt charity!
In the first reading today we
see that God is not happy with the ones whom
he brought up out of the land of Egypt with a show of force and power, who
subsequently embraced evil instincts again and rejected His commandments and
statutes; he ended up disbanding all of the tribes of his own making except
one: one who was more faithful than not: the tribe of Judah, from which would
come his Son as God-made-flesh – so
that we would have a present and true voice of truth and right judgment all our
days – and for all times! We can therefore reject our own willful ways and
choose God’s ways again, and again – so that our lives become more and more
blameless every day and we become more and more qualified for eternal reward
for our good words and deeds!
The
word of God is living and effective, able to discern reflections and thoughts
of the heart!
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