Today's Reflections
The Advocate
Jn 14:21-26
[Jesus said to his disciples,] 21“Whoever
has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And
whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and
reveal myself to him.” 22Judas, not the Iscariot, said to him, “Master, [then] what happened that you will reveal yourself to us and not to the world?”
23Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep
my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make
our dwelling with him. 24Whoever does not love me does not keep my words; yet the word you hear is not mine but that of the Father who sent me.
25“I have told you this while I am with you. 26The
Advocate, the holy Spirit that the Father will send in my name—he will
teach you everything and remind you of all that [I] told you.”
Whoever loves me will keep my word. A
man was complaining to a missionary. “How can you go to Africa and
preach about love to the peoples there when there is so much injustice
and corruption in your own country?”
The
missionary’s answer was stirring. “We don’t go in and preach to them
about justice and love. We just want to go in and love them” (Roy B.
Zuck).
Jesus
does not intend the life of discipleship to be complicated. No matter
how we look at it, Christian life boils down to loving God and loving
our neighbor as ourselves. It is along this path of simplicity in
serving the poorest of the poor that the great and saintly Mother Teresa
of India stands out as a true missionary. And she would often tell her
own sisters, “It’s not how much you do, but how much love you put into
what you do that counts.”
Do you readily witness to your faith
when an opportunity arises?
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