What is your opinion?
Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2019 16:00:00 +0000
Gospel: Mt 18:12-14
JESUS said to his disciples: “What is your opinion? If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray? And if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray. In just the same way, it is not the will of your heavenly Father that one of these little ones be lost.”
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Jesus seeks the opinion of his disciples by posing a hypothetical question whose expected answer is “Yes.” God is happy when God finds a lost member of the flock. It is not God’s will that one goes astray.
Jesus reveals God’s disposition when one is lost. God searches for the lost one day and night until God finds him. God does not give up on anyone. And finding the lost one, the sinner, causes so much joy to God.
The short passage should encourage us, sinners, to go back to God without fear or shame. We are invited to repent, to allow ourselves to be ruled by God once again. Many times, unconsciously, we think, live, or act as if Go
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