Isaiah 26:1-6 / Matthew 7:21, 24-27
It is often said that history repeats itself. It is only the people and the situations or circumstances have changed.
So it is with the lessons of life.
The lessons of life keep repeating itself. It is only the people and situations or circumstances have changed.
But whether it is history or the lessons of life that keep repeating, it shows one thing.
And that is we human beings, despite our intelligence, don’t seem to learn or remember the lessons of life.
We keep making those mistakes from one generation to the next, and going back way into history.
One mistake that the high and mighty keep making is that they think they are going to stay up there forever.
The 1st reading says that the Lord will bring low those who lived high up, brings them down to the ground, and flings them to the dust.
We turn to the Word of God and listen to it in order to know what the Lord is teaching us and the warnings that He is giving us.
Let us listen and remember what the Lord has said and keeps saying.
Then we won’t be in misery over our mistakes, and that our lives will be built on the Lord our Rock.