Breaking the Word

GOSPEL READING: LUKE 10:25-37

Eternal life is not achieved through observance of some rules and regulations. Even the Law itself says that it is achieved through love. A total, unlimited, love of God is important to achieve eternal life. And this also followed by love of the neighbour as one loves oneself. There is no distinction between me and my neighbour. My neighbour and I are one.

Neighbour is the one who is in need of one’s help and assistance. Jesus gives a beautiful story in which he puts a Samaritan as a model. Jews hated Samaritans because of their mixed race. Their hatred was seen in their religion as well. They were almost like pagans to them. Jesus picks up a Samaritan as model to the Priest and Levites who were observing the legal regulations.

நிலைவாழ்வு என்பது ஒழுங்குகளிலும் சட்டங்களிலும் அல்ல. அன்புதான் நிலைவாழ்வுக்கு வழி. இறைஅன்பை வாழ்ந்து காட்டுதலை காணமுடியாது. அடுத்திருப்பவரை அன்புசெய்தல் காணக்கூடியது. அன்புக்கு எடுத்துக்காட்டு சமாரியன். ஒழுங்குகளை கடைபிடிப்பதற்கு எடுத்துக்காட்டு குருக்கள்> லேவியர்கள். அன்புதான் நிலைவாழ்வுக்கு வழி.

GOSPEL READING: MATTHEW 10:24-33

It is good to remember one of the principles, and particularly the doctrine of God’s universal providence, extending itself to all the creatures, and all their actions, even the smallest and minutest. The sparrow is of so small account, that one of them is not valued; there must go two to be worth a penny. Though they are so small a part of the creation, yet even their death comes within the notice of the divine providence; much more does the death of his disciples.

The very hairs of your head are numbered is a proverbial expression denoting the account which God takes in the concerns of his people. If God numbers their hairs, much more does he number their heads, and takes care of their lives, their needs and their souls. It intimates that God takes more care of them than they do of themselves. Men keep counting their money, their goods and their cattle and they do not know when the hair falls yet God takes care of the things which man does not even bother to care for, and that is God’s providence.

கடவுளின் பராமரிப்பு சிறு பொருள்கள்மீது கூட உண்டு. ஒரு சிட்டுக் குருவிக்கு மதிப்பு கிடையாது. இரண்டு சிட்டுக் குருவிகள் சேர்ந்துதான் ஒரு காசு. அவைகளை பராமரிக்கும் கடவுள் தன் சீடர்களை அதைவிட பேணிக்காப்பார். தலைமுடி போன்ற முக்கியமில்லாத மனித கவனத்திற்கு உட்படாத பொருள் கூட கடவுளின் பராமரிப்பில் உள்ளது.