WORD 2day

30^th August, 2013

This is God’s will: your sanctification! St. Paul has the gift of speaking of the greatest of the things in simplest of terms. Today, he puts across in straightforward terms the life task that we have – our personal sanctification. Our personal sanctification comes as a result of our self understanding. ‘Don’t you know that you are the temple of God?’ (1Cor 3:16), St. Paul would ask elsewhere. That self-understanding as the dwelling of the Spirit of God, is the starting point for a whole journey of personal sanctification. It is not a victory gained once for all but it is a constant vigilance and continuous labour, explains the parable that Jesus narrates in the Gospel. The lamp of our life needs to keep burning; the oil is given by God – ‘God who gives the Holy Spirit’. The Spirit is the oil that we need to keep our lamps burning, burning always with the desire to remain sanctified dwellings of the Spirit!