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TIDAK BERTOBAT.
12 Juli 2016.

_"Lalu Yesus mulai mengecam kota-kota yang tidak bertobat.."_ (Mat 11:20)

Lectio
Yes 7:1-9; Mzm 48:2-3a,3b-4,5-6,7-8; Mat 11:20-24


Setelah orangtuanya berpisah, Ronald memutuskan untuk berjuang sendiri sambil berkata kepada ibunya, Lisa:
"Ibu, karena kita miskin, papa dan mama bercerai!
Saya akan berusaha menjadi orang kaya!"

Setahun kemudian Ronald datang dengan membawa mobil merah, dan setelah ia masuk, ia memberi ibunya uang sambil berkata:
"Mama, ini uang buat mama!"

"Apa pekerjaan kamu?
Kok mami melihat banyak orang yang tampangnya serem-serem?
Kamu jangan bekerja yang tidak baik ya.
Kita lebih baik hidup secukupnya!" Tanya Lisa.

"Tenang Mam" jawab Ronald singkat.

Tiga bulan kemudian, Lisa diinformasikan bahwa Ronald ditangkap polisi, lalu ia segera datang dan melihat anaknya di kantor polisi dan bertanya:
"Mengapa kamu Nald?"

"Saya jatuh ke dalam dosa mencari uang dengan tidak halal, saya tidak mendengar nasehat Mama.
Maafkan saya, Mama." Kata Ronald sambil memeluk ibunya.

Lalu Yesus mulai mengecam kota-kota yang tidak bertobat, sekalipun di situ Ia paling banyak melakukan mukjizat-mukjizat-Nya.

Bertobat adalah cara pertama ketika mukjizat terjadi.

Oratio
Ya Tuhan,
jadikanlah pertobatan menjadi hidup kami.
Amin.

Missio
_Marilah kita melakukan karya kerahiman dengan bertobat setiap saat._

*Have a Blessed Tuesday.*

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Tips of the day:
day 1410.

Dunia akan terus mencari dan melihat orang-orang dari penampilan.

Dan mungkin beberapa dari orang terpengaruh dengan kecenderungan ini, mengira bahwa kita akan sulit untuk maju dan berhasil.

Namun Tuhan tidak peduli apa yang dilihat manusia di depan matanya.

Apa yang Tuhan lihat adalah hati.

Hati yang berserah,
hati yang bersyukur,
hati yang taat,
hati yang rendah hati,
hati yang melayani.
Hati yang mau serius mengembangkan karunia untuk dipakai memberkati banyak orang.

Orang-orang yang seperti itulah yang Tuhan pilih lebih dari apapun.

Apapun yang kita miliki saat ini - apapun yang menjadi panggilan Tuhan untuk kita, berusahalah disana dan tetap bersinar.

"Tetapi berfirmanlah TUHAN kepada Samuel:
"Janganlah pandang parasnya atau perawakan yang tinggi, sebab Aku telah menolaknya.
Bukan yang dilihat manusia yang dilihat Allah;
  manusia melihat apa yang di depan mata, tetapi TUHAN melihat hati.""
(1 Samuel 16:7).

Selamat pagi sahabat,
  have a blessed day!

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Matthew 11:20-24.
Tuesday 12th July.


Then he began to upbraid the cities where most of his mighty works had been done, because they did not repent.
"Woe to you, Chorazin!
Woe to you, Bethsaida!
For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
But I tell you, it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for Tyre and Sidon than for you."

Jesus had been preaching and performing miracles in those cities, but they would not repent.

He had gone all the way to Chorazin and Bethsaida to teach them about the Mercy of God and the possibility of helping them to repent and restart a new life, but not many were willing to change.

Their problem wasn't that they had done bad things (we all have).
They probably had grown used to their sins and didn't have any interest in changing.

A family went to the circus.
As they arrived early at the show they went to see the animals that were due to perform.

Among them was a massive elephant.
The boy was surprised that the elephant was tied to a small pole with a thin rope.

He asked the handler why the elephant never escaped.
'Oh boy, it did try!' answered the man.

'When elephants are little they are tied to the pole. They try for a long time to escape with all their might but, since they are still babies, they can't. Eventually they give up. Elephants have a good memory. They never forget that it was impossible. So they never try again!'

It happens sometimes with sinners.
They get used to their sins and eventually consider it impossible to change.

In a way, it is true that it is 'impossible' for them to change...
but "with God nothing will be impossible"
(Lk 1:37).

Chorazin, Bethsaida, Sodom, Gomorra, Tyre or Sidon, or Judas or Peter or Saul or Augustine or you or me... all of us can change for the better.
We are all sinners called to be saints.
We all have sins to regret and grace to accept.
We can all stay, like the elephant, tied to our miseries and sins, wading in the mud of our temptations, or else we can cut off  our ties with the help of God and break free to fly high, to Heaven!

Just as Jesus went to those places, so He always comes to help sinners to repent.

Quite rightly, St Augustine wrote,
'there is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future'.

Mary,
  Refuge of Sinners,
  pray for us!

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