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belovedwolfofgod
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I like to reflect on occasion...
My reflection comes from meditation on the Rosary... sorrowful mysteries... Jesus Christ became sin for us as is written in Romans. "He who was without sin was made sin for our sake." What does that mean for us? Sometimes, in our pride, we go about thinking that we are beautiful creatures, or at the very least we are unaware of how we actually look. In the world of matter, we can look in a mirror and see our appearance. It is much harder to look at ourselves spiritually. But there is a way we can see what our actual appearance is. Meditation on the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary. Jesus was scourged. He was crowned with thorns. The Bible says he was beaten beyond recognition, though none of his bones were broken. Imagine yourself, scourged from head to toe, dripping with blood, flesh hanging from you, lacerations all over marring and scarring your body. Then imagine yourself with the crown of thorns and a cloak of purple fabric. We have crowned ourselves as kings of our own lives. We wear the royal fabric, and we even have a crown. The crown of thorns, however, was a mockery to the king then. And it is a mockery now. Jesus wore the crown so we no longer have to. But we mock him by making ourselves unjust kings. We cannot even save ourselves, yet we desire to rule our own lives. We try to take that power, but where are we gaining it from? When a person challenges his ruler for rule and is found illegitamate, he is declared a rebel. We take the crown upon our heads and wear the royal garb. We are rebels. We pretend to be kings of our domains, and yet we are horribly lacerated and disfigured with a ridiculous crown of undoing on our heads! This is what we look like in our sins.
But God offers healing. He did not come to condemn the world, but to redeem it. Though we are rebels, he offers us a common meal with him. He asks that we remove our crowns so that our intellect may be unhindered. He asks that we take off the royal garb so that he may see our wounds and heal them. We surrender the symbols of our rebellion to the real king, and he does not throw us in prison. He forgives the offense and then heals our wounds. Be humble and surrender your crown, surrender your garb. He gives us a real crown. He gives us a robes of pure white. And above all, we are made whole.
So remember always what you look like and be not prideful, but humble.
My reflection comes from meditation on the Rosary... sorrowful mysteries... Jesus Christ became sin for us as is written in Romans. "He who was without sin was made sin for our sake." What does that mean for us? Sometimes, in our pride, we go about thinking that we are beautiful creatures, or at the very least we are unaware of how we actually look. In the world of matter, we can look in a mirror and see our appearance. It is much harder to look at ourselves spiritually. But there is a way we can see what our actual appearance is. Meditation on the Sorrowful Mysteries of the Rosary. Jesus was scourged. He was crowned with thorns. The Bible says he was beaten beyond recognition, though none of his bones were broken. Imagine yourself, scourged from head to toe, dripping with blood, flesh hanging from you, lacerations all over marring and scarring your body. Then imagine yourself with the crown of thorns and a cloak of purple fabric. We have crowned ourselves as kings of our own lives. We wear the royal fabric, and we even have a crown. The crown of thorns, however, was a mockery to the king then. And it is a mockery now. Jesus wore the crown so we no longer have to. But we mock him by making ourselves unjust kings. We cannot even save ourselves, yet we desire to rule our own lives. We try to take that power, but where are we gaining it from? When a person challenges his ruler for rule and is found illegitamate, he is declared a rebel. We take the crown upon our heads and wear the royal garb. We are rebels. We pretend to be kings of our domains, and yet we are horribly lacerated and disfigured with a ridiculous crown of undoing on our heads! This is what we look like in our sins.
But God offers healing. He did not come to condemn the world, but to redeem it. Though we are rebels, he offers us a common meal with him. He asks that we remove our crowns so that our intellect may be unhindered. He asks that we take off the royal garb so that he may see our wounds and heal them. We surrender the symbols of our rebellion to the real king, and he does not throw us in prison. He forgives the offense and then heals our wounds. Be humble and surrender your crown, surrender your garb. He gives us a real crown. He gives us a robes of pure white. And above all, we are made whole.
So remember always what you look like and be not prideful, but humble.