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highest courage is to dare to be yourself in the face of adversity,
choosing right over wrong, ethics over convenience, and truth over
popularity.
Travel the path of integrity without looking back, for THERE IS
NEVER A WRONG TIME TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
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Bishop Soc Villegas
25 July 2007
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LESSONS OF JOB
(Part 3)
JUST AND RIGHTEOUS IS HE
"Justice is with the
Lord, our God" (Bar 1:15a). Thus we read in today's reading. The
book of Baruch is situated in the circumstances of God's people in exile
in Babylon. Today's reading writes about the people's realization.
"We, with our kings and rulers and priests and prophets, and with
our fathers, have sinned in the Lord's sight and disobeyed him. We have
neither heeded the voice of the Lord, our God, nor followed the precepts
which the Lord set before us." (v.17). Their repentance eventually
led God to bring their exile to an end.
God loves His people. He raised Israel and blessed them tremendously,
according to the promises of His covenant with them. He was very patient
with them. He endured their infidelities and rebellions and idolatries.
But because He loved them, at some point God brought them to
chastisement, in order that they might realize how they had gone wrong,
and be brought back to their senses, repent, and thus be restored.
God's chastisement is a manifestation of His love! Many times, it is the
only way by which a wayward people can be brought back.
The Philippines too is God's beloved. God has a special plan for this
land. But we too have been disobedient and unmindful of the depth of His
covenant. We go about our own ways, conforming more and more to the ways
of the world around us. Before everything is lost, God sends
chastisement, with the purpose that we become reflective of why such
disasters happen, and in this way be brought back to the right path.
Why does God allow such disasters as Ondoy to happen to His people?
Because He loves us and has a wonderful plan for us. Why do our people
have to suffer? Because suffering is redemptive and is cleansing. Why
must we suffer pain in life? Because it is the very way of Jesus, in
order to come to glory.
God is just and righteous. God is all wise. God does not give up on His
people. Let us repent of our infidelities, be faithful to our covenant,
and rejoice in God's love for us.
God bless us all.
frank
(October 2, 2009)
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