“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.
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 and God the Son are so that I may know who I am.
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 writes, “We are all on our own road to Calvary to meet the Man who died on that cross” in his book “The Strangest Way”. We will face our Savior and be judged after we die, this is the hard Truth. In the book “Imagine Heaven” John Burke writes about what people said when returning after being conscious outside their bodies.
They mention a light who is not condemning but full of love. This light goes through their life with them and again is not condemning but loving and asks them questions about where they loved in their lives. What is the most loving thing you have done for someone lately?
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 these reflections 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 being in a relationship with the One we are going to live with for the rest of eternity.
Jesus teaches us today we are called to respond to these Words. We are created out of love, made in the image and likeness of love, and we are called to serve in love. May God’s grace give us the courage to live out these Words in our everyday life and pass them onto the next generation. May we teach our youth 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 radically in love with you.
Be a servant, be a saint today!
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