Reflection26

                               John:12:24-26

                                     Gospel of St.John chapter 12 verse24 says “very truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls in to the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain. But if it Dies, it bears much fruit”? What is the specialty of wheat? Or any other seed? It is nothing…..that. Unless it dies in the earth it will not bear fruit because it receives the strength and power to bear fruit from the difficult situations. Like the wheat, if we want to bear fruits in our life we have to face difficulties and problems there by we bear much fruit. We have to lose our life. Like the wheat, in order to fulfill the needs and wants of others. If we are not ready to have the worldly pleasures, we will not be able to achieve the eternal life. Because Jesus says “one cannot serve two masters at the same time” sometimes we may feel that god has abandoned me, or god has no concern towards me. All these thoughts show our human weakness. Let us be careful not to fall in the temptations of the evil and always try to keep the thought that god is always with me in my difficulties and problems. Than what is the need of difficulties and problems in our life? If we take the example of gold. Gold becomes pure only when it purify in fire. No other elements can purify gold. Only fire can do it, because it is the purist form of all the things in the world. So that the god will never abandoned us. When god is with us we can overcome all the difficulties of the life and the weakness of the human nature and like the grain that falls into the earth and dies to bear fruit. We can also bear fruits of faith, hope and love in our life keeping these thoughts in our mind let us ponder over this passage.

                                                                                Thank you

                                                        Bro. Sijo Thomas