THE PARABLE OF THE TWO HOUSES (7.21 to 27 Mt)
Images of flooding and overflowing of rivers we have become unfortunately, familiar. The geological disasters that plague the territory of our country are more applicants. Hopefully, the lesson is served: homes that are built on sand is a folly that, sooner or later, presented the bill. The image used by Jesus is very simple and understandable, but not necessarily the same in both its practical application. First of all, Let there be a dangerous misconception: Jesus does not call to say against making the word against the facts, prayer and spirituality against charity and service. Jesus refers to two ways of being in any case involving the making and defines a "wise" and the other "fool" In fact, both the one and the other builds the house, but with the difference that the essay builds on the foundation of a solid and lasting, while the fool on a fragile foundation, and intended to crumble. This is so true that Jesus confronts us with the paradox that you can do important things and religiously qualified to be treated by God as sons of iniquity: "On that day many will say to me 'Lord, Lord did we not prophesy in your name ? ... And in thy name have we not done many miracles? But then I will declare to them, I have never known ... "How many times have we identified are among those who go to Mass every Sunday, say their prayers every day, make love ... and we are justified! The words of Jesus, however, penetrate deep down, we question and challenge our certainties inviting us to be consistent, to maintain a close relationship between saying and doing, between the Lord's will and obedience, among ' Listening to the Word and the commitment to put into practice. Jesus certainly has in mind the hypocrisy of the Pharisees who "say but do not load ... unbearable burdens on the shoulders of others, but they do not even want to touch them ..." To avoid hypocrisy is the attitude of the necessary consistency, that is, the real commitment to implement the will of God the Father: "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father ..." But this is an exercise in continuous and ongoing, involving efforts to Always seek the will of God in many different situations of life and effort to put it into practice. The wise man built his house upon the rock, that is, on the word and example of Jesus
Images of flooding and overflowing of rivers we have become unfortunately, familiar. The geological disasters that plague the territory of our country are more applicants. Hopefully, the lesson is served: homes that are built on sand is a folly that, sooner or later, presented the bill. The image used by Jesus is very simple and understandable, but not necessarily the same in both its practical application. First of all, Let there be a dangerous misconception: Jesus does not call to say against making the word against the facts, prayer and spirituality against charity and service. Jesus refers to two ways of being in any case involving the making and defines a "wise" and the other "fool" In fact, both the one and the other builds the house, but with the difference that the essay builds on the foundation of a solid and lasting, while the fool on a fragile foundation, and intended to crumble. This is so true that Jesus confronts us with the paradox that you can do important things and religiously qualified to be treated by God as sons of iniquity: "On that day many will say to me 'Lord, Lord did we not prophesy in your name ? ... And in thy name have we not done many miracles? But then I will declare to them, I have never known ... "How many times have we identified are among those who go to Mass every Sunday, say their prayers every day, make love ... and we are justified! The words of Jesus, however, penetrate deep down, we question and challenge our certainties inviting us to be consistent, to maintain a close relationship between saying and doing, between the Lord's will and obedience, among ' Listening to the Word and the commitment to put into practice. Jesus certainly has in mind the hypocrisy of the Pharisees who "say but do not load ... unbearable burdens on the shoulders of others, but they do not even want to touch them ..." To avoid hypocrisy is the attitude of the necessary consistency, that is, the real commitment to implement the will of God the Father: "Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father ..." But this is an exercise in continuous and ongoing, involving efforts to Always seek the will of God in many different situations of life and effort to put it into practice. The wise man built his house upon the rock, that is, on the word and example of Jesus
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