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Matthew 23:25-26
“You Pharisees and teachers are show-offs…! You wash the outside of your cups and dishes, while inside there is nothing but greed and selfishness… First clean the inside of a cup, and then the outside will also be clean.”

You can impress people with your religiosity; you can sing in the choir or even preach, but what you are in private before God is what really matters. This was the Lord’s sharp rebuke to the religious leaders of his time. Pinakamasasakit at mahahapdi ang mga salita ng Panginoon laban sa mga relihiyoso. Puro panlabas at pakitang-tao.

Palasimba ang lahat noong panahon ni Jose Rizal ngunit ibinunyag nya sa kanyang mga nobelang Noli Me Tangere at El Filibusterismo ang talamak na kabulukan ng mga nangunguna sa relihiyon. Tinanggalan nya ng takip at tabing ang cancer ng lipunan. Ipinakita nya ang kapabayaan at ang kabiguan ng simbahan to create character. Yung pinakamadasalin ang pinakamapang-api. Dinadaya ng mga pinakamalaking mag-ambag sa simbahan ang kanilang mga utusan sa bahay. Yung mismong nangunguna sa relihiyon ang pinakamaraming kasalanan. Kaya naman ang simbahan ang nangunang ipabaril si Rizal. Yan din ang ibinunyag ng Panginoon kaya siya ipinapako. Pareho sila ng inabot na kapalaran.

Napakadaling laging makinig sa salita ng Dios pero magbingi-bingihan at hindi ito sundin. Hindi natin chine-check ang ating yabang, rebelliousness at panlilinlang. Napakarami sa atin na sinungaling at mandaraya. Corporate religion has to be balanced by and rooted in personal relations with Jesus. Public religion has its own importance, but it is not everything. What we are minus our public religious image is what we really are in the eyes of God.

Ed Lapiz

Day By Day Christian Ministries

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