LAW

Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent Year C Matthew 5:17-19 Jesus is always faithful to the laws infact He is the fulfillment of it but his oppositions often criticized him as “law-breaker.” Sometimes we live life like the Pharisees because we often judge another person for doing something that we may think as not correct. In today’s gospel Jesus said: “I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.” What did Jesus mean by the word fulfill? It means He came bringing out the true essence of God’s commandments. The law can be fulfilled in three ways. First, Love it. For Jesus, love is the supreme law since the law is finds its fulfillment in love. Friends, hating and violating the law is not fulfilling it. Second, Act on it. It means dont just observe the norms but live the rules. Nowadays, we need doers not just keepers. We need witness than teachers.“Whoever keeps and teaches the law will be called great.” In life, we all meet hypocrites: people who promote something while not even following it themselves. Do what you say. Act on it! Third, be wise. Wisemen obeys the law, idiots violates it. Qouting from our first reading for today it says: “Observe them carefully, for thus will you give evidence of your wisdom and intelligence to the nations, who will hear of all these statutes and say, This great nation is truly a wise and intelligent people.” Conclusion: Have you noticed that I just personally give the accronym meaning of the LAW? And I defined it this way: LAW- L-ove it A-ct on it, & it will make you W-ise Friends, obey the law and you will be blessed, disobey and you will be punished. Jesus is the fulfillment of the law. Listen to Him and get ready to float in the ocean of God’s blessings. Blessings Fr. Jhack