BASED ON OPINION

October 12, 2018

BASED ON OPINION

Luke 11: 15-26

Yesterday afternoon, for the first time, I spoke with one Russian worker who serves in our house. Usually, I just greet him in English when we are facing because I don’t know if he speaks Thai or English. After introducing himself, he suddenly asked me, “Do you like Donald Trump?” I told Him that I don’t have many interests to know Trump. He replied that I can know him by listening to the radio news or television. And, I said that I don’t read many things about Donald Trump and I don’t watch TV or listen to the radio. 

Shortly, I told him that I don’t like Trump only about his choice for the immigrant people in the USA. I was very sad listening about the Mexican children who were separated from their family because their parents had a problem with their documents. Other things about him, I don’t know. He told me that he doesn’t like Trump because he makes the rich people become very rich and the poor become very poor. He listened to it from his friends.

Today’s Gospel shows us about the power of Jesus won against the Satan. His power is very powerful than the power of Satan. Even Jesus won, many people asked Him about his power. Some of them judged Him that He won against the Satan with the power of Beelzebul. If Jesus uses the power of Satan how come He make fall the Satan?

Their judgment doesn’t have a strong argument. We can say that this judgment based only on the listening and not on the experiencing about it. We can not make like this. If we want to speak about Jesus, we must have a relation with Him. We can not tell many things about Jesus by giving the information that we receive from the other people. I believe, in this case, we can share the outcome of our relation with Him.