Reflection on Luke Chapter 13

Reflection on Luke Chapter 13

In this chapter Jesus teaches about the importance of repentance. We need to repent for all the sins we’ve committed against the will of God in our life. Sins we acknowledgedly and unacknowledly committed. It was interesting what Jesus said against the thought of many about bad things happened to worst sinner or more guilty ones such as the “eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them” and the “Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices”, not because of their deed. But Jesus took away the attentions from those who died to the people who are alive and under the assumptions of the others sins and death by replying “I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.” Luke 13:5.

I like the parable Jesus used in Luke 13: 6-8. I have learned about the importance of patience and also how God is the God of more chances.

Then he told this parable: “A man had a fig tree growing in his vineyard, and he went to look for fruit on it but did not find any. 7 So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, ‘For three years now I’ve been coming to look for fruit on this fig tree and haven’t found any. Cut it down! Why should it use up the soil?’

⁸ “‘Sir,’ the man replied, ‘leave it alone for one more year, and I’ll dig around it and fertilize it. ⁹ If it bears fruit next year, fine! If not, then cut it down.’”

For my own amazing this is what I have noticed in the previous and this chapter of Luke about how a sprit can cripple one’s body. In this chapter we see how Jesus healed the woman who was crippled by a sprit for 18 long years. You see his love and care for humanity.

“And a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. ¹² When Jesus saw her, he called her forward and said to her, “Woman, you are set free from your infirmity.” ¹³ Then he put his hands on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God.

What does the Kingdom of God looks like? It is a pretty good question to ask and get the full picture. Jesus use different parables to describe what the Kingdome of God looks like.

¹⁸ Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? ¹⁹ It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds perched in its branches.”

²⁰ Again he asked, “What shall I compare the kingdom of God to? ²¹ It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed into about sixty pounds^[ of flour until it worked all through the dough.”

It is important for all of us to understand and get the full image of what the kingdom of God looks like while we are on earth. Don’t we pray “thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven”? So what is this heaven looks like?