Just this morning, I and my Aunt attended sunday mass at Victoria Plaza mall. We used to attend sunday mass there. Then, I was solemnly listening every word that has been preached until the priest started to read the gospel. Well, the gospel talked about Adultery. Tsk, tsk, tsk. As we all knew, Adultery is one of the deadly sins which was also declared by Moses in his 10 commandments. Upon hearing it, I became more interested to listen every word by heart. I then said to myself, what a perfect sunday to hear that gospel. Well, this scenario or issue is no longer new to individual. As what other say, we're only human who easily get tempted. Talking about temptation, which I also heard from one of the priest months ago in his homely when he said that Temptation is not a Sin. Temptation is just an invitation for you to commit a sin. Yeah right! I really put this into my mind. So, you'll commit a sin if you accept that kind of invitation. It's just up to us whether or not to allow or accept it to happen in our respective life. So, we really have to use our initiative or we must have to think different circumstances to happen before doing so. However, most often we can't avoid it that easily due to our weaknesses as a human being.
Anyway, going back to the gospel... this became an issue to my personal life. Obviously, i lived with this because my biological father has this situation or we have this situation in life. The only thing that made me at ease with this matter was when i learned from the gospel that God did not condemn that woman who committed adultery but He told to that woman to go and see no more. This means that, that woman was not being condemned but told to move on and to start a new life away from committing that sin again. That's so great! God is really so great by forgiving and giving us another chance to live a new life apart from everything. And, this also made me realize why Jesus wanted to be closed to the wicked because He wanted them to come back to the Father and repent.
I'm hoping for my friend to succeed from this serious matter because she is right now struggling. Her conscience keeps on nagging her every time she and that committed man spend time together. As what the both of them told me, they're just loving each other and enjoying the moment when they are together. It's just so sad because the man is legally committed. My friend is really bothered because she never ever expected it to happen and doesn't want to be involved but she started to love the man. She's making ways to avoid it and correct the wrong ones but she's having hard times letting go of it. I'm really hoping and praying for her to get through with it and someday she's gonna meet a man destined for her and having a job she really dreamed of. I'm also hoping for her long lasting happiness rather than that forbidden and short time happiness.
Above all of this, I do appreciate the gospel and the learnings I've got.
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