Any guesses on who could be given the All-time Best Teacher Award? 

Well…in the light of the Gospel Reading these days, from the Fifth Chapter of St Mathew…

…its not too difficult to guess…

>> Right?

 

 

Yes…

… And the award goes to:

>> JESUS…the teacher-par-excellence!

 

 

It is said that…

… Some books/thoughts are to be just tasted

… Some are to be just swallowed

… while Some others are to be chewed and digested!

 

 

Well… Here is a teaching given by Jesus, best Teacher, that is certainly not too easy to digest…

 

Listen to His Words: “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you!” (Mt 5:44)

 

 

Sometimes when we hear the word ENEMY…

… our thoughts go to some enemies of the nation or some social criminal

 

So perhaps, some of us, may think of some person who has harmed us deeply or cheated us, and has turned to be an enemy…

 

>> But if we analyze our lives closer… we may observe that most of us, have many enemies in our lives…

 

 

An Enemy, is defined by the Oxford Dictionary, as “a person or thing, hostile or opposed to something; that harms or weakens someone/something”

 

A little more closer examination of our lives…and we can discover perhaps…

…. many people fall into this definition!

>>Many in our family or the community…

>> Many in our workplaces

>> Many in our friends circle

>> Many in the society

 

Very often, we get so easily offended when our egos our hurt…

… we get opposed in our life of luxury or comfort

 

So many of them weaken our selfish interests and motives…

…. there are often so many tussles and mental game, and we have so often grudges against all these people

 

 

The list of enemies… though apparently unnoticed, is perhaps deeper….

>> And today the Lord says: “Love those enemies… and pray for them!”

 

 

The Lord wants us to be perfect (Mt 4:48)

 

It is a high demand

>> It is a huge challenge.

 

But we also know one thing…

… if it were not possible, the Lord would have never said it

 

So therefore, let us pick up this challenge of the Lord…and seek towards perfection..

 

 

St John Paul II says: “Do not be afraid to be the saints of the Third Millennia!”

 

>> Let us not remain in idealistic talks and thoughts…

… rather, let us translate the words and challenges of the Lord, in our practical and daily life.

 

>> Let us pluck off the weeds in our lives, and make our lives a beautiful and pleasant garden to the Lord!

 

 

Yes, let us be inspired by Jesus, the Best Teacher, Who not just “taught, but practiced”…

… and thus, seek to be His ‘good students’.

 

 

 

God Bless! Live Jesus!