Poglejmo, kam vodijo Božje sledi današnjega datuma:

Jak 4,9Jak 4,9
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9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.

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Jak 4,1-17Jak 4,1-17
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4 ¹ Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? ² You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask. ³ You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures. ⁴ You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. ⁵ Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”? ⁶ But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” ⁷ Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ⁸ Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. ⁹ Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom. ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you. ¹¹ Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge. ¹² Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another? ¹³ Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.” ¹⁴ Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away. ¹⁵ For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.” ¹⁶ But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil. ¹⁷ To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

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Evangelij po Luku

Lk 5,33-39Lk 5,33-39
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33 They said to him, “Why do John’s disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?” ³⁴ He said to them, “Can you make the friends of the bridegroom fast, while the bridegroom is with them? ³⁵ But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them. Then they will fast in those days.” ³⁶ He also told a parable to them. “No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old. ³⁷ No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. ³⁸ But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved. ³⁹ No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”

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33 Oni pa so mu rekli: »Janezovi učenci se pogosto postijo in opravljajo molitve, enako tudi učenci farizejev, tvoji pa jedo in pijejo.« 34 Jezus jim je odgovoril: »Ali morete doseči, da bi se svatje postili, dokler je ženin med njimi? 35 Prišli pa bodo dnevi, ko jim bo ženin vzet, in takrat, tiste dni, se bodo postili.« 36 In povedal jim je še priliko: »Nihče ne odtrga krpe od nove obleke in jo našije na staro, sicer bo novo raztrgal, s staro obleko pa se krpa z nove ne bo ujemala. 37 Tudi novega vina nihče ne vliva v stare mehove, sicer bo novo vino stare mehove razgnalo in se razlilo, mehovi pa bodo uničeni; 38 pač pa se mora novo vino vlivati v nove mehove. 39 Nihče, ki je pil staro vino, noče novega, ampak pravi: ›Staro je dobro.‹«

Pismo Kološanom

Kol 1,15-20Kol 1,15-20
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15 who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. ¹⁶ For by him were all things created, in the heavens and on the earth, things visible and things invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things have been created through him, and for him. ¹⁷ He is before all things, and in him all things are held together. ¹⁸ He is the head of the body, the assembly, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. ¹⁹ For all the fullness was pleased to dwell in him; ²⁰ and through him to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things on the earth, or things in the heavens, having made peace through the blood of his cross.

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Psalmi 100,2-5Psalmi 100,2-5
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2 Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. ³ Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. ⁴ Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, Into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him, and bless his name. ⁵ For Yahweh is good. His loving kindness endures forever, His faithfulness to all generations.

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Judita toži:

»Stara sem devetindvajset let. Imam otroke in moža, s katerim se nikakor ne razumeva. Z njim se ne da nikoli odkrito pogovarjati. Vedno nekaj prikriva in taji. Hodi naokoli z drugimi ženskami. Domov se večkrat vrača pijan in nasilen. Vse mora biti po njegovem. Če ne gre zlepa, pa zgrda. Nikdar ne pove, kam gre in kdaj se vrne. Če ga kaj vprašam, mi vedno odgovori: »Kaj te briga!« S takim človekom je zelo težko živeti in vendar živim z njim že devet let.«

Judita mora svojemu nevzdržnemu položaju odkriti smisel. Nekaj pozitivnega. Nekaj, za kar je vredno živeti in trpeti. To so otroci. To je vera v Boga. To je oklenitev Tistega, ki je rekel: »Če hoče kdo iti za menoj, naj se odpove sebi in vzame vsak dan svoj križ ter hodi za menoj. Kdor namreč hoče svoje življenje rešiti, ga bo izgubil; kdor pa izgubi svoje življenje zaradi mene, ga bo rešil. Kaj namreč pomaga človeku, če si ves svet pridobi, sebe pa pogubi ali zapravi?«

Lk 9, 23-25Lk 9, 23-25
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23 He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, TR, NU add “daily” and follow me. ²⁴ For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever will lose his life for my sake, the same will save it. ²⁵ For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

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»Če pšenično zrno ne pade v zemljo in ne umre, ostane samo; če pa umre, obrodi obilo sadu.«

Jn 12,24Jn 12,24
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24 Most assuredly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.

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Jezus vabi Judito, naj v svojem težkem položaju hodi za njim. Odpove naj se iskanju svoje osebne zemeljske sreče, reševanju samo svojega življenja. Vsak dan znova naj reče svoj da križu: »Prav ta križ sprejemam – svojega moža, kakršen je. V njem gledam zapuščenega, razbičanega in okrvavljenega Jezusa, ki ga je treba še posebej ljubiti.«

Na začetku bo to zelo težko. To objemanje križa je možno le v moči Tistega, ki je križ objel prvi. Kmalu bo križ lažji, znosnejši, manj robat. Judita bo spoznavala, kako sreča raste iz odpovedi, iz tesne povezanosti s Kristusom, obloženim s križem in pribitim na križ.

Marsikatero trpljenje bi odpadlo, če bi ljudje živeli po Božjih in cerkvenih zapovedih. Ker pa tega ni, je večino trpljenja možno le lajšati. Bolezen in smrt bosta vedno na svetu, pa tudi zlobnih ljudi ne bo nikoli zmanjkalo. Kristus po tistih , ki živijo v ljubezni do bližnjega, trpljenje ljudi znatno blaži. On je vprašanje trpljenja rešil in ga še danes rešuje s sprejetjem trpljenja in s pretvorbo v največjo ljubezen. Dokaz za to je Njegova smrt na križu.

Mati Terezija je dejala:

»Trpljenje samo ni nič, toda trpljenje, ki je deljeno s Kristusovim trpljenjem, je čudovit dar. Človekov najlepši dar je, da more biti deležen Kristusovega trpljenja. Da, to je dar in znamenje Kristusove ljubezni; kajti tako je Njegov Oče dokazal, da ljubi svet – dal je svojega Sina, da je umrl za nas.«

Na trpljenje ne smemo gledati kot na nekaj zgolj negativnega. Posnemali naj bi Jezusa, ki je nanj gledal drugače. Trpljenju je treba odkriti višji smisel, smisel, ki presega ozke meje časa in prostora. Če verujemo, da je Bog ljubezen, je ljubezen tudi takrat, ko dopušča trpljenje. Naša naloga je, da trpljenje spreminjamo v ljubezen. Če iz ljubezni trpimo za Boga in za bližnjega, najbolje razodevamo, da je naša ljubezen iskrena in nesebična. Ker je Kristus trpljenje in smrt sprejel iz ljubezni do Očeta in človeštva, je postalo tako zelo  rodovitno. Z njim nas je odrešil.

Le kdor v križu odkrije nekaj pozitivnega in ga z ljubeznijo objame, bo od velikega petka prešel v veliko noč. V križu bo odkril in objel Kristusa samega, on pa ga bo popeljal k slavi vstajenja.

Na tem razbičanem svetu nikoli ne bo zmanjkalo možnosti za srečevanje s trpečim Kristusom v sebi, bratih in sestrah; zato tudi nikoli ne bo zmanjkalo možnosti za srečevanje z Vstalim.

Danes smo se poslovili od nestvarnega gledanja na znanost in tehniko, ki naj bi rešili vse probleme in odpravili trpljenje. V resnici se z njunim napredkom problemi samo množijo. Ostajajo mnoga področja človeškega življenja, katerim ti panogi ne moreta pomagati. Gre predvsem za notranjo človekovo srečo in za medsebojne odnose. Ker niso urejeni, mnogi ljudje zelo trpijo. Za rešitev človek poleg horizontale potrebuje tudi in predvsem vertikalo, saj ne more živeti samo od kruha.

Trpljenje nas ne bo strlo, če bomo gledali nanj z vidika večnosti. To je Božji pogled. Kaj je še tako veliko tprljenje tu na zemlji v primeri z večno srečo, ki nas čaka onkraj groba! Kaj je 50,60, 80e 50,60, 80
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Izbrano poglavje ne obstaja!

WP-Bible plugin let še tako neznosnega trpljenja v primeri z nebeško blaženostjo, kjer bo miljarda let manj kot kapljica v primeri z neizmernim oceanom sreče v Bogu!  Zato se veselimo s škofom Antonom Martinom Slomškom:

“V nebesih sem doma, tam Jezus krono da, tam je moj pravi dom, tam večno srečen bom.”

p.Anton Nadrah ( iz knjižice Posvečevanje življenja)