Third Sunday B of Advent JN 1,6-8 19-28
AI Today, we see that people like a high opinion of themselves. They are considered important. The wise. Experienced. They know everything. They know politics and religion. They don’t like it when someone questions their opinion of themselves. Opinion about oneself is not yet true oneself. Many people who have a high opinion of themselves are actually at a much lower level.
KE John the Baptist had a true opinion of himself.
DI “Who are you?” Asked the priests and the Levites over John. And they began to offer him various answers. Are you the Messiah? Are you Elijah? Are you a prophet? These were all tempting names, and John could make them bigger and more important in the public’s eyes. He didn’t do that. He told the truth about himself. He called himself “the voice of one calling in the wilderness,” and he called himself unworthy of the Messiah to untie the straps of his shoes.
John was not overestimated or underestimated. He believed and accepted that God wanted him to prepare people for the coming of Jesus. It was an extraordinary privilege. When he received it, John had no ambition to make himself more important than the one he was preaching about. If he did, he would deceive himself, as well as the crowds to whom he preached. However, John showed his character, faith, and humility. Jesus could rightly call him later the greatest man who was born of a woman.
PAR The purpose of our entire religious formation is to accept the place and mission that God has given us and to have a true view of ourselves. A person who prays, participates in the Eucharist, is educated religiously, and lives a dynamic spiritual life, should not live in a lie about himself. Simultaneously, it should be resistant to the various modern pressures that artificially create from every “super-human.” Many people think that they are essential when they can comment on something or understand something or have some experience, acquaintances, and status. How many people will say: if I were president; if I were a pope; if I were mayor … These are very “dangerous” people who have not found a true relationship with themselves. They carry it like a cross that bothers others.
In God’s eyes, the life of each of us is of value. We are all needed by God. God has given everyone so many gifts that he can have respect for himself and influence the environment in which he lives. However, we need to do this in healthy humility and not in conceit and importance. To understand that we do not know everything and we cannot change everything. Sv. Paul told us today that our greatness is, above all, that we belong to Christ Jesus.
WE ALSO CHRISTMAS ST. Confessions are meant to help us know the truth about ourselves. When asking our conscience, let us ask whether we did not often boast or make others feel that we were the wisest, whether we did not underestimate or ridicule others. But let’s ask the opposite. Didn’t we keep quiet when we were supposed to talk? When were we supposed to defend someone? When were we supposed to express our Christian opinion? When should we defend truth and justice?
ADE Sometimes people also ask us: who are you? The evangelist wrote of John as a witness who testified of the light. Let us also hear and feel in our answers that we are above all witnesses of Jesus Christ and his gospel.
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