RenHar. 23 September 2016 _"Mesias dari Allah."_

MENGASIHI Tuhan
– benar-benar mengasihi Dia
– berarti menghidupi perintahNya,
    apapun resikonya.

*Chuck Colson*

*

⭕Mutiara Iman

*MESIAS DARI ALLAH*

23 September 2016

_"Mesias dari Allah."_ (Luk 9:20)

Lectio
Pkh 3:1-11; Mzm 144:1a,2abc, 3-4; Luk 9:18-22.

Setelah 3 tahun mengikuti Steven mengembangkan anak-anak muda di desa, lalu Thomas (putera Rudi) kembali ke rumahnya.

Setibanya di rumah Rudi bertanya :
"Thomas, apa saja yang telah kamu pelajari dari mengikuti Steven?"

Thomas menjawab :
"Banyak pah, setiap hari kak Steven berdoa bersama, bekerja bersama, dan membagi kebaikan kepada anak muda di sana, sehingga mereka menjadi bersemangat!"

"Siapa yang membuat dia seperti itu? Papa mau kenal!" lanjut Rudi.

Thomas menjawab :
"Tuhan Yesus Kristus pag! Kak Steven selalu melihat hidup sebagai suatu proses pengudusan.
Suatu proses yang ikut berjalan bersama Yesus dari Galilea ke Yerusalem.
Salib bukanlah suatu musibah ketika kita berjalan bersama-Nya, tetapi justru bagian dari proses pengudusan."

Mendengar itu, Rudi memerintahkan semua anak buahnya untuk membakar semua barang-barang haram, menutup tempat judi, dan mengajak orang muda bertobat dan percaya kepada Yesus.

Yesus bertanya kepada mereka :
"Menurut kamu, siapakah Aku ini?"

Jawab Petrus :
"Mesias dari Allah."

Ketika kita percaya kepada Tuhan, pertobatan dan kehidupan akan kita peroleh.

Oratio
Ya Tuhan, kasihanilah aku orang berdosa ini. Amin.

Missio
_Marilah kita melakukan karya kerahiman dengan mengenal Tuhan yang memberikan pertobatan dan kehidupan._

*Have a Blessed Friday*

*

St Pio of Pietrelcina, Priest.
Friday 23rd September.
Luke 9:18-22.

Now it happened that as he was praying alone the disciples were with him; and he asked them, "Who do the people say that I am?"

And they answered, "John the Baptist; but others say, Elijah; and others, that one of the old prophets has risen."

And he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"

And Peter answered, "The Christ of God."

Many people had different opinions about Jesus because each one had a different relationship with Him.
The entire Gospels give us an accurate description of Jesus written by God Himself.
And yet different readers can see Jesus in different ways.

For that reason the Holy Spirit comes to assist us when we read the Gospel so that we know Jesus, the 'real' Jesus Christ that walked on earth two thousand years ago and not just an "opinion" of Jesus.

The Apostles transmitted what they saw. Then the early Church transmitted what they heard from the Apostles.
Some of those things were put in writing and became the New Testament.
Some other things were never written, just transmitted from generation to generation.

That's what we call Tradition.
Tradition allows us to understand the Gospels appropriately and know the 'Real Jesus' rather than my 'opinion' about Jesus.

In 1865 missionary priests were allowed to go to Japan after more than 250 years of prohibition and persecution of Christians.
Some people who lived in Urakami (a village near Nagasaki) received a French priest, Bernard Thadee Petitjean, and confessed to him that their families had kept the 'Kirishitan' (Christian) faith all that time without priests. But they wanted to ask three questions:
1) Where is your wife?
'I have no wife' said the priest;
2) Do you have a Mother in Heaven? 'The Virgin Mary is my Mother' he replied;
and 3) Do you follow a bishop dressed in white?
'Yes, I follow the Pope'.
They explained that three centuries before, the priests told them that other priests would come one day and, in order to make sure that these priests were the successors of the Apostles, they had to ask those questions. They were satisfied with the answers.

Mary, Mother of the Church, help me to read the Gospel with the same spirit with which it was written, to see Jesus as you, Mother, saw Him.

*

Tips of the day: day 1473.

Memang orang-orang Kristen tidak sempurna, dan banyak dari mereka yang tak menjadi teladan yang baik. Sebagian orang mungkin menggunakan situasi ini sebagai alasan untuk menolak Yesus.

Namun menyalahkan orang lain tidak akan menghapus pertanggungjawaban seseorang kepada Tuhan.

Kebenaran Injil tidak bergantung pada cara orang lain menjalani hidup iman mereka, keselamatan menyangkut Yesus sendiri. 

 Jangan sampai kesalahan orang lain mengalihkan perhatian kita dari Yesus dan Injil.

 "Sebab jika kamu mengaku dengan mulutmu, bahwa Yesus adalah Tuhan, dan percaya dalam hatimu, bahwa Allah telah membangkitkan Dia dari antara orang mati, maka kamu akan diselamatkan." (Roma 10:9)

Selamat pagi sahabat, have a blessed Friday!

*