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Only through confronting oneself with God is it possible to decide on change.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

We humans often claim that one person can accomplish nothing. Yes, we sometimes leave each other this way, too. Sometimes it’s resignation, and other times we want to cover up our reluctance or cowardice to do something worth more and necessary, but unpleasant.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

But above all, we can see from the significant and negative figures of the ancient or less ancient past that this is not the case. Lenin. Hitler. Stalin. Gottwald. Mao Zedong. Hussein. Putin. These have brought and are bringing destruction to hundreds of thousands and millions of people. And in a sense, it is about one person. One person can change history.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Today’s Sunday’s first reading is about Jeremiah. Jeremiah, a righteous man and prophet of God, suddenly finds himself in a real mess. <\/span>This<\/span> is also why he is sometimes referred to in biblical theology as a type of Christ \u2013 persecuted, abandoned, falsely accused, condemned to death, “running deep “\u2013 but saved by God.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

However, before he was saved, he, the only one, began to change something with his courage. And he changed history. And not only him, but as we read in the first reading, also Abdelmelech, who was not afraid to stand up for Jeremiah and was receptive to what is just. God is and demands justice!<\/span><\/h2>\n

Today’s second reading from the Letter to the Hebrews no longer tells us about the foreshadowing of Christ, but is about Christ himself. He is the originator and finisher. He is the “arch\u00e9gos “, that is, the one who runs out on the road first, the line for the first time, the one who opens and shows the path of faith \u2013 the originator. And there is also “teleiot\u00e9s “, the finisher, that is, the one who alone can lead to perfection.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Without Christ, perfection is not. However, the path of the originator and finisher of everything to eternal glory led through the “disgraceful cross”he took upon himself, through pain and rejection. The winner’s wreath cost him a lot, but it was worth it just for him and only for him, “run “, sacrifice.<\/span><\/h2>\n

While events “turn out well “in the first and second readings, the Gospel may not seem like it at all at first. After all, Jesus says in it that he came to throw “fire on the ground “and brought “division “. It is strange that Jesus, the Lord and the giver of peace, as angels announce it to people after his birth, brings fire and division to the world.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Someone could say that today’s Gospel is like an elephant in porcelain. It creates a mess, confusion, and destroys everything that was once beautiful. That’s a human view. And what is God’s?<\/span><\/h2>\n

Although fire destroys (for example, Sodom and Gomorrah), it also beautifully cleanses and is even a sign of God’s presence as the Holy Spirit. In this context, Jesus says that where there is God’s light and God’s justice, there will undoubtedly be a confrontation of good with the world of evil, justice with injustice, and love with unloved.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

“The Gospel divides and brings restlessness. Well, not by its aggressiveness, but by requiring us to make a clear decision<\/span>…<\/span> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Only through confronting oneself with God is it possible to decide on change. Only through looking at love can I discover and admit my dislike as a person, and only through looking at perfection can I admit that I am imperfect and sinful. And that’s when the scorching fire comes that destroys “Sodom and Gomorrah “in me, purifies and makes me open to God. It is possible to reject this fire. It is possible to give it up in advance. Furthermore, it is possible to despise the cross and say that it does not exist. But then I give up the truth, God, and eternity.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Jesus, in words of division, shocking the readers of Scripture for two millennia, clearly says that the Gospel divides and brings unrest. Yes, it divides! Well, not with my aggression, but by requiring a clear decision from us people: am I for Jesus or am I against him?\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

And yes, it also brings restlessness, because peace is not peace at any cost or compromise with evil, but peace is always the fruit of truth and justice. And where there is no truth, where there is no justice, there is no peace.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Today’s<\/span> liturgical readings open two lines for us to think. The first is the realization that the Gospel, justice, and truth should “divide “, not me. But in social, political, family life, and community life, we see that we are people of division. We divide precisely through lies, aggression, injustice, our malice, and our interests. And often quite obviously, making others puppets and tools of their desires and ideas.<\/span><\/h2>\n

The second point is that, even in the context of a meeting in Alaska, the vision is “measure at any price.” Just let there be peace. Just let the war end. Just let the guns die down. If Napoleon had borne the consequences of his political and military actions fairly, the “stodgy empire” and the deaths of several tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians would have been avoided.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

If the powers in Munich did not negotiate “o us without us “and would not give in to one of the greatest mass murderers bit by bit until “netbook “part of Europe, the Second World War did not have to be or could have had a different course.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

If Soviet Russia had not had the same fascist tendencies as Nazi Germany, and Poland had not been divided in the Molotov\u2013Ribbentrop pact, it could have looked different in 1939.\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Suppose in 2014, the world powers had not given in to an aggressive Russia that stole part of the territory of Ukraine and left Crimea to it despite the blatant injustice. In that case, February 24, 2022, would not have been. For peace is where truth and justice are, not where evil recedes in the vision of the false ” “. And we humans still cannot learn from history, and we go through injustice in silence. We couldn’t even do it from the Scriptures.<\/span><\/h2>\n

As long as humans cross borders, convinced that they can, and do not engrave in their hearts the law of love based on truth and justice, which they also follow, it remains necessary for Jesus to bring division in the spirit of today’s Gospel.<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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