A God filled life
Friday, 27th week in Ordinary Time
Joel 1:13-15,2:1-2; Lk 11 : 15-26
The thought of getting closer to God stops short of achieving that goal when people think merely in terms of a negative process of doing away with things that are in contrast- sins and evil tendencies. Joel points out the importance of emptying ourselves of these negative elements. But Jesus in the Gospel underlines the fact that emptying alone is not enough.
Emptying has to be simultaneously accompanied by a filling in. A wholesome Christian life is not that which is devoid of sin and temptation... but that which is filed with God, filled with Christ, filled with the Spirit... so God filled that the world around us feels the presence of God so close and near. That is basically what we mean by the Reign of God.