30th 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!