FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT
First Sunday of Lent
Reflection on today’s readings:
Gen, 9:8-15
1Pet, 3:18-22
Mk, 1:12-15
A sinner is called no more a sinner when he repents and receives blessings from the Lord. When we look into to days readings we clearly understand how to be strong and faithful to the Lord, without loosing. We see in first reading the covenant made by the God himself to the Noah and all the descendants of him. By seeing the wickedness of the mankind he sent rain on the people to wahaway and to kill everybody except whom god sees as a righteous people. Among them are Noah and his descendants. He made a great destruction by sending flood over the people; he wants to perish all those who are living with crooked ways and wrong ways. By seeing their wickedness God himself was sorry that he has made mankind on the earth which we find in Gen, 5:6.Their hearts were filled with evil ways, so god sent a great flood on the earth. After saving the life of the Noah and his descendants, he says there shall not be any more destruction on the earth, so the people began to be good the Lord.
When we look in the second reading, St.Peter is encouraging the people to put and have hope in the Lord, whom the god the father send to save the mankind, we saw in the first reading that god destroyed and made covenant with the Noah and his descendants, now when god saw the people sinning again and again, so he sent his only son. He suffered, died and rose again and brought salvation to all the mankind. It gives hope for all the faithful that, he died only in the flesh but in the spirit he is alive. So, it gives hope for the faithful to have hope in him. Since we are human beings, and limited beings, we tend to sin again and again, so it is the lord who gave us salvation, by putting himself on the cross.
In the gospel we find that not only human even the Lord also put to the temptation. He was put in temptation by the Satan three times. We see wherever there is good, there will be evil too, but the thing Jesus shows us here is not to fall in temptation, that is why we always pray in the prayer of Jesus, do not allow us to fall into temptations. Here when Jesus was asked to change the stones into bread and eat, if you are the son of god. Jesus replied man cannot live by bread alone but every word that comes from the mouth of the person. The second temptation is asking him to worship, so that he will be given the authority over the earth. Jesus brings the first commandment that you worship the Lord alone, no other. The third temptation is to jump from the hill, so that your angels will come and carry you into the kingdom of heaven and you will be saved. Though Jesus was tempted he did not fall in his temptation. After fasting for forty days he could have made the stones into bread and eat but it is the will of His father made him to send away the Satan. But let us see ourselves in this lent season, how we are living our life? Are we doing according the will of the Lord, as He did according to His father? It is a great and good time for us to repent our sins and get blessings from the Lord, so that we also live according to the will of the Father and follow the lord more closely. So let this time of lent be a miracle in our life to have conversion and change to live our life fully according to Christ Jesus. Amen.
Reflection on today’s readings:
Gen, 9:8-15
1Pet, 3:18-22
Mk, 1:12-15
A sinner is called no more a sinner when he repents and receives blessings from the Lord. When we look into to days readings we clearly understand how to be strong and faithful to the Lord, without loosing. We see in first reading the covenant made by the God himself to the Noah and all the descendants of him. By seeing the wickedness of the mankind he sent rain on the people to wahaway and to kill everybody except whom god sees as a righteous people. Among them are Noah and his descendants. He made a great destruction by sending flood over the people; he wants to perish all those who are living with crooked ways and wrong ways. By seeing their wickedness God himself was sorry that he has made mankind on the earth which we find in Gen, 5:6.Their hearts were filled with evil ways, so god sent a great flood on the earth. After saving the life of the Noah and his descendants, he says there shall not be any more destruction on the earth, so the people began to be good the Lord.
When we look in the second reading, St.Peter is encouraging the people to put and have hope in the Lord, whom the god the father send to save the mankind, we saw in the first reading that god destroyed and made covenant with the Noah and his descendants, now when god saw the people sinning again and again, so he sent his only son. He suffered, died and rose again and brought salvation to all the mankind. It gives hope for all the faithful that, he died only in the flesh but in the spirit he is alive. So, it gives hope for the faithful to have hope in him. Since we are human beings, and limited beings, we tend to sin again and again, so it is the lord who gave us salvation, by putting himself on the cross.
In the gospel we find that not only human even the Lord also put to the temptation. He was put in temptation by the Satan three times. We see wherever there is good, there will be evil too, but the thing Jesus shows us here is not to fall in temptation, that is why we always pray in the prayer of Jesus, do not allow us to fall into temptations. Here when Jesus was asked to change the stones into bread and eat, if you are the son of god. Jesus replied man cannot live by bread alone but every word that comes from the mouth of the person. The second temptation is asking him to worship, so that he will be given the authority over the earth. Jesus brings the first commandment that you worship the Lord alone, no other. The third temptation is to jump from the hill, so that your angels will come and carry you into the kingdom of heaven and you will be saved. Though Jesus was tempted he did not fall in his temptation. After fasting for forty days he could have made the stones into bread and eat but it is the will of His father made him to send away the Satan. But let us see ourselves in this lent season, how we are living our life? Are we doing according the will of the Lord, as He did according to His father? It is a great and good time for us to repent our sins and get blessings from the Lord, so that we also live according to the will of the Father and follow the lord more closely. So let this time of lent be a miracle in our life to have conversion and change to live our life fully according to Christ Jesus. Amen.
From,
JOJAPPA K SCJ
FIRST YEAR THEOLOGY STUDENT
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