Teacher, which commandment of the law is the greatest?
Recently, my friend opened Kapitaku Cafe @ YMCA, Upper Session, Baguio City. The whole day was Testing with a purpose to advertise and test the authenticity of the coffee and non-coffee drinks.
Testing has become a prerequisite for everything. We test things before they served their purpose and people undergo the same process.
As a human being is born, he is subject to testing, like newborn screening and other laboratory tests. As he grows, the battery of tests follows.
In human relationships, a lot of testing maneuvers are done before we can accept a person to our group or before he becomes a friend.
Nothing is wrong with testing what makes it bad is the intention. When the intent is to discriminate or to fish for loopholes to be used against the person that makes bad or inhuman adventure.
Kinda employment of testing particularly to human relationships is offensive because it will be yardstick to measure if a person fits our own preference and standards.
More than often, we are like the Pharisees who love to test with evil intent- we test others as if they are lab rats!
Worst of its kind was the intent of the Pharisees who tested Jesus! A double bladed test whose sole objective is to make Jesus falter in contradiction.
But evil intent will never prosper with Christ as the embodiment of pure truth and consistency..
Thus, given that in our daily existence the test comes in different forms the best way to confront this test is being truthful or factual just like Christ’s response to Pharisees.
And as Jesus replied the greatest of all the commandment in the law is:
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind.”
The second is: “shall love your neighbor as you love yourself.”
October 30, 2023 is our Barangay Election, may the best candidate wins. After the election, may Christ’s Love overflow in hearts. We continue to love our neighbors as we love ourselves!
