The Enemy comes when everyone/Everything is at sleep

Gospel Thoughts

*Ordinary Season : 16th Week - Saturday*

*GOSPEL - Mt 13: 24-30*

*First Reading - Ex 24:3-8*

*The Enemy comes when everyone/Everything is at sleep*

*While everyone was asleep his enemy came*

*1) Enemy came when everyone was asleep*

The Gospel of the day makes it very clear that, the enemy came when everyone was a sleep 

When some one is at sleep,  he/she is passive and he/she is not able to do anything. 

No resistance is shown when someone is at sleep. So the enemy chooses this time to do something bad, because, it is easy to carry out 

*2) Other than physical sleep, there are also other forms of sleep*

We are familiar with physical sleep, which we all of us experience. There is nothing special about it 

Other than the physical sleep there are also other forms of sleep which are more dangerous than the physical sleep 

Since sleep makes us inactive with many other things, the sleep of the following things makes us inactive in our spiritual life

The sleep of laziness 

The sleep of gossip 

The sleep of pride 

The sleep of hatred 

The sleep of revenge 

The sleep of taking things for granted 

The sleep of jealousy

The sleep of carelessness

The above forms of sleep and many other forms of sleep in our life, is a best opportunity for the devil to enter and to sow the seeds of weeds

*3) The need of being alAlert*

*Be on your guard and stay awake. Your enemy, the devil, is like a roaring lion, sneaking around to find someone to attack* 1 Peter 5:8

St Peters letter gives us a apt warming against our slumber. 

The devil - our enemy - waits for an opportunity during the state of our slumber. If once it enters then it takes the control of our life 

Therefore keeping ourselves alert is very important to win our battle against the devil 

*4) The ways through which we can be alert*

We need to be like the watch dogs of our own life 

Watch dogs are always alert and they don't sleep 

We need to be alert with regard to our spiritual life, so that the devil may not enter in our life easily

*5) Am I still sleeping?*

Devil is active at all times to misguide those who are suffering from the slumber of spiritual things 

Spiritual slumber is more dangerous than any other slumber 

Let us try to overcome from the slumber so that we can chase the enemy from sowing the seeds of weeds in our life 

*Devil can't come when you are active*

*Think about it*

*God bless you and your family. Praying for you and your dear ones*

*Fr Maxim Dsouza*

*Jeppu Seminary*

*Mangalore*