Saturday, October 8, 2016
THE GREAT ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE
WORD 2day: 8th October, 2016
Being Children in faith
Saturday, 27th week in ordinary time
Gal 3: 22-29; Lk 11: 27-28
Being related to God is a faith experience. I do not call you servants but friends, declared Jesus. Remain in my love, he said. I shall be your God and you shall be my people, was the mind of God when God made the covenant with people. Being related to God is a need, a longing, and a recognition that gives me my identity.
But this does not come by default. Merely because I am baptised I don't belong to Christ or I don't become a child of God. Paul says, I need to clothe myself with Christ. My mentality has to change and be transformed. That is what Jesus means when he says it is more important to hear the words of the Lord and put them to practice than to go around saying I am a Christian.
We need to become Children of God not merely by title but in faith.
WORD 2day: 12th October, 2016
Directed by the Spirit
Wednesday, 28th week in ordinary time
Gal 5: 18-25; Lk 11: 42-46
Our doings need to flow from our being. Our being should be guided by the right spirit, for our doings to be dignified and desirable. When our being and our doings do not synchronise with each other, the person turns out to be either evil or evitable.
Integrity is the most respectable of all virtues. This is what we meant when we spoke of our being and our doings synchronizing with each other. A person who is directed by the Spirit comes out to be an integral person.
Integrity costs, it costs a considerable bit. Some times it costs one's comfort zone, at times one's opportunities vis-a-vis the others who manipulate situations, and at other times it costs one's image as being successful. It is the Spirit who alone can prepare one to pay such costs.