The dangerous leaven
Gen 6: 5-8, 7: 1-5, 10; 1 Mk 8: 14-21
The Lord invites us, as God's people to be the light of the world and the salt of the earth. Another significant role the Lord assigns to us is to be the leaven of goodness; the yeast of the Reign. Today he warns us of a danger that we become a leaven of insincerity, compromises, mediocrity and hypocrisy. Even though we may not outwardly choose to be blatantly evil, we may live a life of double or multiple standards, a life of total discrepancy; that life would not only be unfit for Reign, it would be dangerously against the Reign.
We begin the the holy season of lent tomorrow and what a time to impress on our minds this concrete message!