By Your Own Words

The book of Jeremiah talks about how the chosen people had gone away from the Lord and in chapter 2, the infidelity of Israel has angered God. He said in Jeremiah 2:33-35, “How skilled you are at pursuing love! Even the worst of women can learn from your ways. On your clothes men find the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all this you say, ‘I am innocent he is not angry with me.’ But I will pass judgment on you because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’ Why do you go about so much, changing your ways?”

How many instances had we been witness to so many people caught in the act of doing sinful things and yet they still “deny to death”. The Lord is angry with liars! It is rightly so, because the evil one is the father of lies.  So if we lie we actually worship the evil one. Why do we go so much changing our ways, asks the Lord?

We have heard in many court trials, “I have the right to remain silent.” An accused person can invoke this right in order to protect himself from self-incrimination. The more we talk the more we make mistakes. It is in the words that we utter that others can get a glimpse of the purity of the heart. Watch out what we say, be careful because by our own words we might be condemned. The Lord rightly warned us to be careful because, “I will judge you on the word of yours…” Jeremiah 2:35

Let us never justify our wicked and sinful ways. Rather we should acknowledge, confess and repent from it. The Lord hates liars! Liars are arrogant people. They don’t accept correction because in the first place they cannot accept that they made mistakes. So they justify their sins. We have heard this from so many politicians, “I have done nothing wrong, I was thinking only of what is good for my constituents.” The end does not justify the means. A sin will always be a sin. Stealing is stealing no matter how you justify it. (Ang pagnanakaw ay pagnanakaw kahit ano pang pangangatuwiran mo. Ang Pangawat, pangawat jud, bisan unsaon ug bali-bali.)

Lord, grant us the grace to acknowledge, confess and repent our sinful ways. Amen.

by aats