“A good tree can't produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can't produce good fruit,” (Luke 6:43).The Church liturgy gives us today’s Gospel on the last Sunday to examine our heartjust before Lent begins.
The Lord Jesus says “good things” will come out of the “good stored up in our heart” and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart.
What we really need to focus on, is not to do many good deeds, but to cultivate a good heart. How we talk and how we walk are reflections of what we have stored in our hearts.Our words and actions reveal what is in our hearts.We need to focus on being good. God is looking for good heart. This is what we need to pay attention to, and cultivate.
How many times in a day we criticise our fellow men and women without knowing all or of the true facts?Often, we feel guilty of rash judgement, criticism, cynicism, fault-finding constantly flow from us.
Let us stop all these negative elements and with God’s grace we shall find ourselves becoming more Christian and more charitable towards our neighbor and less critical of the faults of others.
“It is good to give thanks to You, O Lord.” (Ps 91).
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