Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
When the messengers of John the Baptist had left,
Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John.
“What did you go out to the desert to see a reed swayed by the wind?
Then what did you go out to see?
Someone dressed in fine garments?
Those who dress luxuriously and live sumptuously
are found in royal palaces.
Then what did you go out to see?
A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet.
This is the one about whom Scripture says:
Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,
he will prepare your way before you.
I tell you,
among those born of women, no one is greater than John;
yet the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.”
(All the people who listened, including the tax collectors,
who were baptized with the baptism of John,
acknowledged the righteousness of God;
but the Pharisees and scholars of the law,
who were not baptized by him,
rejected the plan of God for themselves.) Lk 7:24-30
“In his testimony to John, Jesus reveals his understanding of the relationship between them: John is the precursor of Jesus (Lk 7:27); John is the messenger spoken of in Mal 3:1 who in Mal 3:23 is identified as Elijah. Taken with the previous episode, it can be seen that Jesus identifies John as precisely the person John envisioned Jesus to be: the Elijah who prepares the way for the coming of the day of the Lord.” Scripture Scholar side note New American Bible Revised Edition
John, the Precursor, of Jesus is the last great prophet. I sometimes have students ask me why God doesn’t send prophets today. There is no need, God’s plan of salvation for humanity whom he loves radically, has been revealed. It reminds me of the Rich Man and Lazarus where there is a huge chasm between the Rich Man in hell and Lazarus laying his head on Abraham’s bosom.
27 “He answered, ‘Then I beg you, father, send Lazarus to my family, 28 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.’
29 “Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the Prophets; let them listen to them.’
Also, when Jesus is walking with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus.
25 He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! 26 Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” 27 And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them what was said in all the Scriptures concerning himself.”
God has done everything He can possibly do for us. His plan of salvation has been spelled out for us in very plain language. As all things with the Father, he likes to see things grow slowly. Our RESPONSE to the Father is one of thanksgiving and praise and adoration. The hardest part of faith is taking the time to develop a personal relationship with a daily habit of prayer and getting to know Him and His plan of salvation in the Scriptures. Humanity is weak and fragile, it is hard for us to stay focused and pay attention to the most important things in life. We are easily distracted.
I think it would be wise to take time everyday to figure out what were made to be seeking. What is the heart’s greatest desire? What gives us purpose and meaning. If you don’t pay attention, it is going to sneak right past you. Time plays no favorites. What are you looking for and how do you seek?
Today’s challenge: Seek without unceasing the One who created you, Saved you, and lives on in you since you are baptized and confirmed. What you expect to find will be something completely different and it takes a sacrifice of your time to pray, seek in the Scriptures, and to live a faithful sacramental life. It’s worth giving up everything when you find it!!!!!!
Be a servant, become a saint!
#Christian YOLO
I think this Gospel is saying that people with riches aren’t the ones who are automatically going to Heaven. Just cause they have expensive earthly possessions means nothing to God. Praying every day and leaving your everyday possessions behind is what will get you to Heaven and following Christ.
We should be like John. Faithful to Jesus and modest.
Today’s scripture passage is very truthful and very meaningful in our day in age. The main message I got today is that God is the greatest and no one else will ever compare to him. Today’s day in age we idolize fake gods. We have a bad habit, and most of us are guilty of it. You have to put God first in everything, everything. God has to be a top priority in our life above sports and musicals. During this Advent time, lets try to prepare our mind for putting God first in all that we do.
John the Baptist, who tells everyone to repent for the Kingdom of God, is the precursor. He is making the way for Jesus to come and save everyone, and although Jesus says, “Among those born of women, no one is greater than John”, but he also says that even the least in the kingdom of God is greater than him, because God’s place is so holy that even the least is greater than John.
God is always trying to reach out to us. He is always wanting to be with us but we ignore him. He sends us so many gifts and signs to be with him but we don’t care. We need to take the time to grow closer to him and get to heaven.
I think Jesus is trying to say that John the Baptist is a great human being, the best born with original sin and that he is supposed to preach to Jesus and baptize him.
In today’s reading it mentions that those who weren’t baptized were rejecting the plan of God. It is kind of difficult to comprehend but at the end of the day we all have our own choices and we choose whether or not to be baptized. But as we grow up in the faith we are all baptized and it helps us get to heaven everyday.
Jesus that John is not God but a prophet to prepare the way for Him. Jesus is the Son of God and King of kings. He is the one who suffered for our sins, but John was the one who prepared the way for Jesus.
I really like this scripture today. it says, “among those born of women, no one is greater than John; yet the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.” This part really speaks to me. What I get from this is that we are all born with sin, and none of us are perfect. Just because we are not perfect does not mean we can’t try to be. We should always try to be our best selves.
God is always trying to reach out to us. He is always wanting to be with us but we ignore him. He sends us so many gifts and signs to be with him but we don’t care. We need to take the time to grow closer to him and get to heaven to be with him.
What reached out to me was when He said, “rejected the plan of God for themselves”. What this means to me is that God has a plan for all of us. If we stay close to God and fight through sin and temptation we will follow God’s plan and live the fullest of our lives.
In this gospel it tells us about John the Baptist. Jesus says that on earth, no one is better than John born of women, but in heaven, the least is greater than he. We are all able to go to heaven. We will be great when we do reach heaven.
Seek the truths of the world. God wants us to know them, but he also wants us to not forget him. Life is a long, hard, often exhausting experience. As we grow older, we mature, and we discover ourselves. We also tend to forget to acknowledge the beauty of the world, and the one who made that. We forget about God. God becomes less of a priority and popularity and money takes His place. Take time everyday to remember who God is and humble yourself.
The scripture is saying that john is one of the perfect example for a person for the kingdom of heaven so we should act more like him.
what reached out to me is, “who were not baptized by him, rejected the plan of God for themselves.” it just is telling me that if I ignore the calling of God, I am rejecting Him. Which to me I feel like it’s scary to think i’m ignoring Him. But everyone honestly has and we have to realize that and fix it.
Jesus talks about how John the baptist (his cousin) is a great prophet and person. About how he got so many to convert including tax collectors which were thought to be some of the worst of the worst. He was such an influential part of our faith and growing it when it was starting. He spread the word of God making him a giant part of our faith. That is why he is the greatest born among women.
The people traveled through the desert to see this John, a prophet. We too must seek out someone. This journey may take up our whole lives but we still need to look for and seek out Our Lord, Jesus Christ, so that He might save our souls and welcome us into the kingdom of Heaven to be with Him.
The gospel today says that I need to prepare the way for Jesus. Just like John he was in the Jordan preaching. How I will spread the gospel, I will do time in silence to pray for the conversion of the world. Then I could go after mass to the adoration and pray again.
“God has done everything He can possibly do for us. His plan of salvation has been spelled out for us in very plain language. As all things with the Father, he likes to see things grow slowly. Our RESPONSE to the Father is one of thanksgiving and praise and adoration. The hardest part of faith is taking the time to develop a personal relationship with a daily habit of prayer and getting to know Him and His plan of salvation in the Scriptures.” Is really something good to go off of and stuck out to me the most
God has done everything He can possibly do for us. His plan of salvation has been spelled out for us in a very plain language. As all things with the Father. He likes things to grow out slowly. we must take time to figure out who we are in Christ, we need to take time for what we are searching for.
Awesome, Sean!
what i thought was interesting was that Jesus sends no prophets today because we can already love him.
because we have His life (grace) and the Holy Spirit to guide us, we can be holy now
This scripture was really good, and I really enjoyed reading it. This reminds me that not everything has to be rushed, because sometimes when you rush things, it can end up going wrong. So we must follow Jesus and take our time with the things we do.
Today in the scripture I felt that Jesus was telling the crowd to worship God and not think that John was God. Jesus said in the scripture I tell you,
among those born of women, no one is greater than John;
yet the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.”
Showing to the crowd that John is not as great as a LOT of people in Heaven.
So we must try to be like John and baptize people to the Catholic Faith. But not as Priests.
As Messengers of God.
God has done many things for us. but what have we done for him? we were made love, serve, get to heaven. but if we don’t serve the one who created us, then we are not doing what we were created to do. He has done many things for us. but think, what are you going to do for him?
“Then I beg you, father. ”
That is what I got out of this passage, all we do is beg and beg until the time comes and we get what we want because we are non-stop beggars we never stop. It is important to know patience it will always help us, God will not always answer immediately it will take some time, so we must have patience.
Humbly submit your will to God (Thy Will be done) and consecrate yourself to the Sacred Heart of Jesus through Mary and Joseph.
Meaning give your life to God, friends wont always have your back but God will.
Truth, Karly! I understand.
what i think of this is that John is some important and that he needs us to listen and be holy to love and to help be someone people will remember like him.
We need to embrace God and not be afraid of him, he came down here to be with us and show us how much he cares about us. And we don’t need to think that we don’t deserve to be with him. God wants us to be with him and talk to him in our daily lives.
The thing that i got from this scripture is God didnt send his Son just to save the rich or the holy or only the high Priests. Jesus came to save everyone even the sinners the poor the wealthy even the tax collecters. God loves us no matter what. He made us from dust and to dust we shall return. He is always chasing after us. If Jesus didnt love us so much he would not have saved us. Why would somebody go through all that pain the stress and the exhaustion if they did not love the person they are saving by doing that. God knows we are sinners he knows we are going to mess up he knows everything and he is still constentley chasing after us.
God has done many things for us. But what have we done for him? We were made to love, serve, and get to heaven. but if we don’t serve the one who created us, then we are not doing what we were created to do. He has done many things for us. but think, what are you going to do for him?
” I tell you, of those born from women none is greater than John. Yet the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.” That tells me that you can be amazing and the most popular and have a ton of money and live a life that everyone dreams of, but in heaven you will be among the least of God people. But if you live a life of poverty and live by God’s word and rely only on him, then you will be the highest of people in heaven.
It’s hard to develop a relationship with Jesus. It takes time and we have to do it slowly. You have to develop a habit of saying a rosary every day , sit in silence every day, saying a prayer when you wake up and go to sleep, fasting on days that you have to fast and so much more. But when we give all these things up and when we die and go to heaven and meet all of our relatives and all the saints that have been praying for us for our whole lives it’s going to be so worth it. So you might as well just start now than later when you really do’t want to do it and maybe don’t even know how to do it.
God has told us so many times on what to do on how to get to him but we rarely listen to him he is always giving us signs on what to do he has made it so clear but we still refuse to listen to him because we think we know best or we just ignore it he is always telling us things but its just our decision if we choose to listen to him or just ignore it like its nothing.
I think that it means that everyone who listens to God will be heard. And that woman that are born are not greater than John but the kingdom of God is greater.
“Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, he will prepare your way before you.” This part stood out to me because its saying that we need an example someone to get us ready for his coming or our ending and giving us a way to live giving us a purpose. Even when he died for our mistakes he gave himself to us yet we still struggle to give ourselves to him and we struggle with not even having a conversation with him like he’s not even their.
“What did you go out into the desert to see a reed swayed by the wind?” Jesus said. lets be real no would go out into the desert, but if it were a prophet we were looking for then yes.
God is always trying to reach out to us. He is always wanting to be with us but we ignore him. He sends us so many gifts and signs to be with him but we don’t care. We need to take the time to grow closer to him and get to heaven.
That when John is dead Jesus still tell stores about him. And I can tell stores about Jesus.
we should all be like jesus no mater how hard it is and remember him we always should trust him because he has the greater plan
the scripture is showing that we cant just wait for Jesus to come and save us, we need to help other people with their faith and encourage others to love god, like going to mass. It also shows that we need to go out of our way to speak to Jesus (in prayer) and go to mass and do other things that we know we are called to do by god (like caring for the homeless) and if we dont do these things imply because we dont want to, in a way, we are rejecting god.
what stuck out to me is that God has done everything He can possibly do for us. The hardest part of faith is taking the time to develop a personal relationship with a daily habit of prayer and getting to know Him and His plan of salvation in the Scriptures. Humanity is weak and fragile, it is hard for us to stay focused and pay attention to the most important things in life. We are easily distracted. I personally get distracted really really easily i want to work on my relationship with God and my focus on prayer which all of us should.
Awesome! I pray that you take that goal serious!
I think what God is trying to say to us is that if God sends a message and we see it we should follow it and seek to it, but to be careful because it could be the devil trying to lure us into a trap or making us do his deeds.
This is saying that money can’t bring (eternal) happiness, or any at all. Be kind to others and the gates will be opened up to you.
I think the scripture is saying that the people went out into the desert to see the rich. but Jesus plainly said that just because someone is rich and powerful doesn’t mean they are God. Jesus says the one that wears old rags and sandels on his feet is the prophet John. Sometimes I think we prize money or our phones over God or someone telling us about God. We don’t see his words in them we only see what they are wearing, and what they don’t have. I feel like this scripture is sort of based on the 1 st commandment.
He is always there waiting for you reaching out to you. He is with you forever and never leaves you. The apostles made our way to Heaven mapped out in the Bible for us.
“I tell you, among those born of women, no one is greater than John; yet the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.” This stuck out to me because it is telling us that God doesn’t care if you had a lot of money or had a lot of valuables, he wants the people who had nothing.
I think it means you dont go to a place like a desert to see someone rich or famous you go to see the nature and its wonder and likewise you don’t go to a palce to see prophets of God you go to see a rich person
“Time plays no favorites.” To me this really hit the nail on the head. We have to seek God even when there are no prophets, when we do not feel his presence. Time goes by fast so we have to seek God every day of every hour. We also have to let him in. There may be no prophet to tell us about God but that doesn’t mean we don’t need to seek him.
us as humans get distracted easily from false gods like social media, money, and our phones and we don’t see the Almighty
God that stands before us so we shouldn’t look away or push him to the side we need him and to talk to him in real life and
not on our phones
What stuck out to me is that John is the last great prophet. The hardest part of faith is giving your time to spending time with God, praying to him, and growing your relationship with him.
This scripture says that we need to prepare the way for Jesus, John is a great example for us to go off of so we should act like him.
God wants us to get closer to him and prepare for his second coming. In the scripture it says that the hardest part of Faith is making a daily habit of praying and getting to know God, but we are too focused on doing other things that we forget.
I am not a big fan of this passage but it does have a meaning that everyone still does today. It’s greed. We all were greedy and selfish whether you were young, old, or now. You might not think you are selfish until you think hard about it. You will deny it just like Peter the Apostle did. “The bird crowed and mourned in the sight of lying. It fled away, with tears of diamonds.” “Oh why, oh why do you always lie? You are hurting The Son of who is gold.” This little sentence was made by me. Your eyes will open when you take the plank out your eye.
I like the sentence you made, it is very easy to criticize and hard to take criticism.
The Bible is a mystery. Every part of the Bible is holding some type of message, and the Holy Spirit is the interpreter of these messages. I think that God gave us the Bible to help guide us on the path of faith because He knows that we´re broken. God knows that we can´t survive without Him and we always need His help. I also think that God gave us the Bible because he wants to teach us the way of our faith. It´s hard to stay faithful in God because of the struggles of our world and our generation. Because of this, I think God chose me to help stop this.
Today’s Gospel is telling us why do we look for Jesus in places where he is not? To truly look for Jesus we need to meditate, and talk to him in prayer.
I think today’s scripture passage is telling us that God has done so much for us. He has done everything for us and without Him we wouldn’t be here. Nobody else can take His place or be him. We can try to be like Him, but we will never be Him. He has done so much for us, so we need to do things for Him in return.
I think that it is saying is that we should be faithful to God like John was. He was almost perfect example of a follower of God and so we should be like him and we should be faithful to God.
“Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, he will prepare your way before you.” if you do not know already that we are the messengers we are the ones to get the world ready for Jesus we need to clear the path for Him. He is coming soon “you know not yet the day nor the hour.”
what the scripture is telling me is that we go out to see the prophecy or john the baptist. why do we do that? to find the true meaning of the prophecy and that we go to strange places to know what it means. no one is greater than the one whom baptised us and only the kingdom of God is greater.
I think that this scripture means that we should act like john in the sense that we should preach what we learn. John was a prophet but now that Jesus is here doesn’t mean that we still can not spread the word of God. If we do we will have favor with God.
Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you,
he will prepare your way before you.
Jesus was the the messenger and He would tell people about God and how great he was and still is. But now we are the messengers and we have to spread the word of Jesus. We have to tell the people about the wonderful things He has done for us.
John the baptist was the last prophet he was preparing the way for Jesus and he gained a lot of followers and some thought he was the messiah. Jesus said that john the baptist was the greatest one earth but would be the least compared to any one in heaven. i think he said this because, john was very holy but he was still human and still had sin. in heaven there is no sin we are feed from sin and granted eternal life in the kingdom.
John has said what we need to do. He is a sign from God and we choose to ignore him. We sometimes just don’t try our best to hear and talk to God. He will be patient with you, and you can be patient by trying and listen to him.
Jesus is saying that even though John was a good person, holy and devoted to God, still the least of Heaven is greater than him, because John is not God. Those tax collectors who were baptized by John comprehend this and understand that John is not the prophet, but the Chief Priests and pharisees do not believe Him and reject Jesus’s teachings.
John the Baptist prepares us for Jesus. John is telling the people that he is not the messiah but Jesus is the true messiah. Us today are falling away from Jesus because of lies in our life. We need to know Jesus, and we need to get closer to Jesus to live to the fullest potential of our life.
This scripture is saying money isn´t everything in order to make it to heaven. We need to live a good holy life to make it to heaven.
John the Baptist was a missionary. He lived in the wild and ate honey and locust. He lived a life of suffering. Although we probably aren’t able to do that now we still should suffer for Jesus. He got beaten, tortured, and died for us. You should be able to suffer at least a little bit for Jesus. Like during Lent we fast.
I think that this scripture is saying that we need to look for God instead of looking at our phones or our TV screens, thinking that he will come to us. He will, but you have to ask for Him. He wants us to talk to Him. We shouldn’t be afraid. God is like a good friend, He is always there for us and has our back when times are tough.
I think the scripture today is telling us that God is our true savior.We need to take mind and realize God has done everything he could for us. He sent his only son and he sacrificed him and he died on the cross. We need to thank the almighty for what he has done for us in our life.
What I thought was interesting is that Jesus doesn’t send prophets anymore since we already love Him. Especially is this statement, “A prophet? Yes, I tell you, and more than a prophet. This is the one about whom Scripture says: Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, he will prepare your way before you. This has so much power and meaning behind it because God’s love is amazing.
John was a precurser to Jesus. He was followed by many people but was humble. He did not use his popularity for himself but for Jesus. We can use this in our own lives as a role model. To not get cought up in being popular, I think its ok to want people to like you better in a certain amount. But just dont let stuff like that take over your life. 🙂
Money is not the way to heaven to get to heaven you also wont get to heaven if you think all you have to do is pray you have to go to mass every week, receive the Eucharist, and even confess your sins. The lord and his followers are waiting, they want you to figure out what it right so you can eventually get to heaven.
Today’s scripture passage is very truthful and very meaningful in our day in age. The main message I got today is that God is the greatest and no one else will ever compare to him. Today’s day in age we idolize fake gods. We have a bad habit, and most of us are guilty of it.
In this Gospel it talks about the second coming and how we need to prepare and be ready.
” tell you, among those born of women, no one is greater than John; yet the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he.” We need to be like John. Love Jesus like he did. Of course we aren’t going to be exactly like him, but we need to love Jesus like he does. He is a great influence to everyone. We need to also be a good influence as well, not just to our classmates but our siblings too. Jesus wants us to love Him and Jesus is waiting for us too.
This scripture kinda just talks about messengers and how God works through them. In the end everything is working through God. It talks about how someone with the best news doesn’t always have to look the best. The world today is pretty good at judging people based on how they look. You just have to be open.
This means that God can see what ever you are doing.
All the people who listened, including the tax collectors,
who were baptized with the baptism of John,
acknowledged the righteousness of God;
but the Pharisees and scholars of the law,
who were not baptized by him,
rejected the plan of God for themselves.
I think this part of the scripture is trying to tell more of us in this part of the world to stay strong in the faith and not fall away. Social Media now is pulling all of us away and people are being drawn away from God, We need to stay strong and push through these hard times and pray to God more.
The scripture states that John is the greatest among humans, but the least among the people in the heavens. I think that is interesting. God hand picks who he wants to enter heaven, and this says that he only chooses the best.
I don’t think that is what He means!
Jimmy Akin-Apologist for Catholic Answers says, “The answers to these and many more questions are made clear if one understands an important but often neglected concept-the universe of discourse.
When someone is speaking or writing, he has in mind a set of things (a universe) about which he is talking (discoursing). Anything that is part of that set is in his universe of discourse. Anything that is not part of that set is not.
The reference to John’s greatness occurs in a discussion of his role as a prophet (11:7-15). And the declaration of his greatness is occasioned by Jesus quoting the prophecy of the coming prophet (v. 10) who would herald the Messiah (Mal. 3:1). Jesus follows up the remark by pointing to John as the terminus of the Law and the prophets (v. 13) and as the fulfillment of the prophecy that Elijah (or one like Elijah) would come (v. 14).
This explains the sense in which John is greater than all others: He is the greatest of the pre-Christian prophets in the sense that he gets to be the herald of the Messiah himself.
“Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you, he will prepare your way before you.” God has sent many people to teach us about Jesus, even people in this room now. They are part of his plan to help you get to heaven.
I think this piece of Scripture is saying that money and fame won’t get us to heaven or make us the best. Heaven doesn’t count on material value, but spiritual. We need to do good works, spread the word, and believe in Him to get to heaven.
This scripture is talking about how it saying there is someone greater out there than john and everyone else like those who have everything like beautiful garments etc and Jesus is saying like why are you so wrapped up in this.like everyone now and days whoever has nice things is like our idol or whatever but Jesus says that not it.
It is saying that nothing is greater than God. We may put things in front of Him. We need to make sure that no matter how hard it might be we need to try our best to get rid of all distractions.
I think the Scripture was saying John the Baptist was a great man and someone we should live up to. We should aspire to be like and act the way he did. John the baptist loved Jesus and always followed Him. We can learn something from that. We can always love Jesus and follow Him. Jesus always loves us. Even though we are sinners who hurt Jesus everyday, Jesus still loves us. If we were the only person on Earth, Jesus would still die on a cross to save us.
In today’s Scripture it tells me that the people who John the baptist talked to and baptized became deeper in the faith of Jesus and that John helped Jesus out a lot by spreading the Gospel to everyone and made them go deeper into the Catholic faith. Those who didn’t talk to John or get baptized by John were not as deep in the faith as those who did. This means that those who listened to people that spread the word came closer to Jesus.
What stuck out to me from the scripture was when it said that the hardest part of Faith is making a daily habit of praying and getting to know God. we should be getting closer to Him. We pray and all but that really isn’t enough. We need to try harder.
I think the scripture is saying, God will welcome us if we welcome Him into our lives whenever we get baptized. However if we do not welcome Him into our lives He will not welcome us in His Kingdom.
“Then what did you go out to see?” I feel like this cuts right to my heart, especially when I sin. If you rephrase it, it becomes, “Then why did you leave?” Why did we choose sin? Our fallen human nature causes us to sin and we need God to help us conquer our sin. We then make a simple examination of conscience. Why did we do it? The simple answer is, we said “no” to God. We need God to help us say “yes.” We can turn to the Blessed Mother for help because Mary gave the ultimate “yes.” Mary is the one who helps us reach her Son. Say “yes” to God, and “sin no more.”
God knows we have trouble believing in things that sound crazy. Not going to lie, Jesus and His life sound crazy and impossible. The is why He gave us John the Baptist. Through John, God fed us the information that we needed to love the Lord Jesus the one and only God. If you have trouble believing in the Lord, read about John the Baptist. Once you read about his life I know with absolute certainty that you will feel like you have known God all you life.
“the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than he ” Jesus is telling us that we dont need money for fame to get into heaven all we need to do is just be kind to everyone and love one another!
I think Jesus is trying to tell us that the desert representing Hell has nothing good. All it is pain and suffering. I also think he was trying to say that everyone is equal to all.
John the Baptist is one of my favorite characters in the Bible because he is almost always modest and always faithful to Jesus which is why we should be more like him
He said to them, “How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken! Did not the Messiah have to suffer these things and then enter his glory?” I like this because it is about people questioning Jesus but he suffered for us. We shouldn’t question anything that Jesus did when he was still living. Jesus loves us no matter what and if you don’t believe that he will love you even more.
God has done everything He can possibly do for us. His plan of salvation has been spelled out for us in a very plain language. As with all things with the Father, he likes to see things grow slowly. Our RESPONSE to the Father is one of thanksgiving and praise and adoration.What i think when i read this is all the times i just wanted to see Jesus just instantly but like it says you grow your relationship slowly with thanksgiving praise and adoration.
I like this because it showed me that God does everything for us no matter what he will sacrifice himself a billion times and we would still do a ton of sins. Also because he sees everything and every one and he loves us so very much unconditionally too.
“What did you go out to the desert to see a reed swayed by the wind?” That stuck out to me because we always want something from others but we never do anything to deserve it. We always ask God for prayers and help but what do we do in return? We need to realize that God died on the cross for us so the least we can do is pray to him, acknowledge him, and spread the word of God.
God has done everything He can possibly do for us. His plan of salvation has been spelled out for us in very plain language. As all things with the Father, he likes to see things grow slowly .
I think that sometimes we expect to see changes in our life right away when we pray to God, or go to confession. I am guilty of this as well, but God knows all things and he is the “Man with the Master plan” and knows what is best for us and when.
“Then what did you go out to see?”This part stuck out to me because it is telling us that we don’t go out to see small things but we only go out to see big things. Like if there was a rabbit we wouldn’t go running outside to see it. If a famous person was outside then we would go running to see them. We need to appericiate the little things as much as we appericiate the big things.
God has done everything He can possibly do for us. His plan of salvation has been spelled out for us in very plain language. We must respond to him and not let other things get in the way. The hardest part of faith is taking the time to develop a personal relationship with a daily habit of prayer and getting to know Him and His plan of salvation in the Scriptures. I think that this means that we need to get to know God and limit other less important things to make time for him.
In this Scripture reflection it shows that we get distracted and that we are human. No one is perfect except Jesus, God, and Mary. We don ´ t pay enough attention to God enough and get distracted too easily by things like technology.
As humans we do not realize how much love and grace God gives us. We are so ungrateful, and can not even comprehend how much God gives us.
It seems like Jesus may be foreshadowing the Holy Spririt arrving in events such as Pentecost by saying He is sending a messanger.
I feel that Jesus may be foreshadowing the arrival of the Holy Spirit at events such as Pentecost when He talks about sending a messanger
“God has done everything He can possibly do for us. His plan of salvation has been spelled out for us in a very plain language. As all things with the Father”,Yes,he has,he has done everything that he could possibly do for us and it is very plain,very easy
to hear and understand that,but some people like to believe that there is no God,or some turn away from him because THEIR
life is going downhill.And?Its your life God hasn’t done anything but everything he possibly could to save us.