To be light

Jesus places a condition on us.
Life brings us different situations. Once we are happy, undressed, because we are at the wedding, once we are in overalls with an ax in hand, and we are preparing wood for winter … I use different means for different life events. Axe, which is for chopping wood, we can not use for washing windows. The windows would be “Clean,” but we would definitely bang our heads against the wall in the winter. Jesus presents something similar to us today. A candle for lighting belongs to a candlestick and is not placed under a bed or couch. That’s how it is for us, says today’s gospel, Is a lamp brought in to be placed under a bushel basket or the bed and not to be placed on a lampstand? ”(Mark 4:24)

If we give the lamp under the meter goes out, if we put it under the bed, we light it, and it’s out of it more harm than good. We can rightly ask: Is there such a person who would do this, to put a candle under the couch? The answer is: a candle under the couch is every Christian,
who knows to do good, but he chooses evil. He knows he has to live by
the gospel, but the gospel to him is his will; he does what he wants. “He wasn’t paying attention to what he listened to ”(Cf. Mk 4:24),“ they shall be kindled by the doctrine of the prince of this world ”—the devil, and he does not trust us as well as Jesus does. Jesus tells us, “Be careful with what you are listening ”(Mk 4,24), t. j. choose my teaching, you will be a candle on the candlestick, you will shine to others, and you will have the light yourself. Christians’ task to consecrate the world (a candle on a candlestick) is not to desecrate the couch).
Our job is to let people see our good example and thus take ourselves away from us; they set it on fire. If the people of us take an example and live the gospel, that’s what we are he will count as a reward, for it is written, “Those who have brought many people to God, they will be like stars in heaven ”(Dan. 12: 3), but if we offend people “He shall not reckon with any good work” (cf. Ezekiel 18:24), that is, “he will take to us also what we had ”(Mt 25:29).
It scares me how short the gospel is today, but how serious it is. Maybe you are we will say that this is a great responsibility that God has given us. Yes, it’s a very great role and responsibility, but it gave us a role and gave us an example of possible. That example is Jesus Christ himself. But also the people who lived here and lived according to Jesus. These were also all sorts of things, but they used the right means to do that. They ruled to live according to Christ. These means are: st. Mass, daily St. reception, frequent St. confession, reading St. scripture, meditation reverence of the Virgin Mary, angels, and saints …. There are many of them. Each of them contains one essential element, and that is the love of God. We could compare this love to traffic signs. If we follow these, we will definitely reach our destination. Similarly, this love for God will tell us what to do or to go to St. Mass, read Scripture, helping parents, free up space on the bus as the first to respond to the other person… It follows that if I live according to God, we will be the candle that is on the candlestick. In this way, we will fulfill our most basic task, “to be the light of the world and the salt of the earth ”(Mathew 5: 13-16), just as Jesus commanded us.