The One Who Receives the Greatest Grace May Be the Most in Danger “Woe to you, Chorazin ! Woe to you, Bethsaida ! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon , they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you. And you, Capernaum , will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades . The one who listens to you listens to Me, and the one who rejects you rejects Me; and the one who rejects Me rejects Him who sent Me” (Luke 10:13–16). (1) Today, I would like to meditate on the lesson given through Luke 10:13–16 , together with its parallel passage, Matthew 11:20–24: (a) First, Jesus rebuked the cities in which most of His mighty works had been done, because they did not repent (Mt. 11:20)...
The atitude of the builders [Nehemiah 4:15-23] Here is the story of a Sufi teaching: A man wanted to get married. He wandered all over the world to meet the most perfect woman, but he could not find the perfect woman. In the end, her friend asked him who just came back after wasting her life. ‘Yes, isn’t there a single woman in the world who is so perfect?’ The 70-year-old bachelor replies. ‘No, there was one. She miraculously found the perfect woman.’ asked the startled friend again. ‘So how did it go?’ the bachelor replied with a gloomy face. ‘Whatever she is, she is looking for the perfect man. So, in the end, she was blown away’ (Jeong-ho Kim). Maybe that's why there are old bachelor and old virgins, we don't know. What is the essence of Sufi teachings here? There is no perfect church in this world. But what's the problem? Like a 70-year-o...