Wisdom 2:23 - 3:9 / Luke 17:7-10
Human beings have the tendency to be ambitious.
They desire to be better than the rest and to even rise above the rest.
In other words, human beings want to be masters instead of being servants.
They want to be served and not to serve.
But when God created man, God made him in the image of His own image.
God even entrusted man to be the master of all creation.
Yet, as the 1st reading tells us, it was the devil’s envy that brought about the fall of man.
In the gospel, Jesus reminds us that we are merely servants and we have a duty to fulfil.
But beyond that, we are also called to serve, just as our Master Jesus came to serve and not to be served.
May our service to others express the love of God for them.
And by our service, may we also discover our dignity in Jesus, that we too serve just as Jesus our Master came to serve.