Yesterday we saw the conversation between Jesus and Nathanael. Jesus qualified Nathanael as true Israelite without any duplicity. Today’s gospel speaks of the character just the opposite of that, full of duplicity and truthlessness, the character of Scribes of Pharisees. Jesus calls them whitewashed tombs.
The key word of this gospel would be “pretention”, act like holy or good. But the pretention is never the real. A person can pretend for short time but one day it will be exposed and the others would understand him/her. It is one of the causes of marriage break down in the present time. During the time of “boy friend-girl friend relationship” it is easy to pretend to be a good person. But after marriages when living together the whole time with the partner the pretention fails and the real nature comes out. It causes lot of problems thereafter.
Is there any way out from this situation of pretention? Yes, the answer would be conversion. If we are ready to pass through the experience of conversion there is no need of anymore pretentions. Let us ask the blessings of God for having a conversion experience in our lives.
Dear Anil,
ReplyDeleteYour reflections are really brainy and they touch the hearts and minds of the people like me to live a life in correspondance with the Gospel of Christ. Thank you! Continue with the good work!
Sanil Tharayil
thank you sanil for your encouraging words.
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