Prayer Prompt before reading LK 10:13-16: Come, Holy Spirit, teach me how to pray, interpret the Scriptures for me so that I may know the Truth about who God the Father is and God the Son so that I may know who I am.
“BUT IT WILL BE MORE TOLERABLE FOR TYRE AND SIDON AT THE JUDGMENT THAN FOR YOU.” LK 10:13-16
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Today, Jesus teaches us something we don’t hear in social media, the news, on NETFLIX, in our music, or anywhere in our culture. As Jesus is proclaiming the Kingdom of God, He teaches us there will be judgment, “But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.”
Bishop Barron says in his book “The Strangest Way”, we are all on our own journey carrying our cross to meet the Man who died on the cross for us. If our lives are about relationships and God created us to have a relationship with Him, then why do we think we will enter into His house not having a relationship with Him or really knowing Him when our day comes to meet Him.
We will face our Savior and be judged after we die, this is the hard Truth. To be fair, we have to hear the Word of God, the Good News, the proclaimed Kingdom Jesus teaches us about in the Scriptures before we are judged. The hard Truth Jesus proclaims today is those who have heard His message of repentance but choose not to and reject Him “will go down to the netherworld”.
A place exists for souls who hear the Good News and reject it. Peter Kreeft calls these souls spiritual garbage. It scares me when so many people get caught up in the culture, stop going to Church, and start creating their own religion or ideas of God. Jesus makes it very clear today that hell exists and there is a consequence for not responding to the Good News.
Part of the reason I write this blog is to teach young people they can read the Scriptures, reflect on them in silence, and make the Holy Spirit a reality in their lives. The Word of God with the grace of the sacraments and prayer are essential to enter into the Kingdom, but Jesus teaches us today we are called to respond to these Words.
May God’s grace give us the courage to live out these Words in our everyday life and pass onto the next generation there are consequences if we do not listen to the Word or if we listen but reject it. Jesus cannot lie, there are everlasting consequences, and heaven and hell exist.
Today’s challenge: Take time in silence today to really allow Jesus’s words to sink in. Take a hard look in the mirror and ask yourself what you can do to bring yourself closer to Jesus with His grace in the sacraments, reflecting in silence on Scripture, spending time with Him in adoration, dedicating yourself more fully to Mary and Joseph, and responding to the Father who is madly in love with His creation
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YODO (You Only Die Once; we will live again!)
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