this generation will be charged with their blood!
Woe to you, scholars of the law!
You have taken away the key of knowledge.
You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.”
I happened to experience this at my medical college – where the learned professors didnt impart their knowledge but took it away from all of us who wanted to learn. The latest methods were not learnt by them and neither did they let any one else learn! I was very suprised to find teachers so harsh and rigid to any questions and learning and I made a note to myself to teach my juniors and students all I can with all the effort and boy I did!!
Teaching is a vocation. Everyone who is learned or has knowledge cannot impart it. As a catholic, I have heard so many learned priests over the years give homilies, some stayed with me some I slept through. I have seen people flock to a certain preacher cause ” he apparently explains the Bible well” but there are some who use this gift to increase their following and search for materialistic power!
I believe teaching is a passion, I absolutely love it and would assist so many of my juniors their rightfully earned cases in theatre so I knew they did not harm my patients! I always believed a teacher did minimal intervention, let the student be and learn and encouraged them to learn more! Today when we read the scripture we all turn into teachers through how we understand it and imbibe it!
While I know todays Gospel Jesus spoke of all the false pretenses put up by the prophets, I realise I do it too! I rather attend the prayer services regularly than help someone in need. Where as Jesus expects us to give our lives for His word and spread it.
Help us to be non judgmental and understanding towards the other and focus on being better humans than church heroes! I dont think Jesus keeps a tab of the masses I skipped while I ran to save a baby with hand out of the mothers womb! It is always the intent and the act that matters!
Let us focus more on practicing than preaching and being better humans to others than claiming the first bench at church!
PRAYER:
Help me lord to focus on acting all you say and living a life of faith. Help me to stop wondering about how I follow rules but instead be a better person everyday.
AMEN.
