Integrity... Knowing the one who calls
First Tuesday of Advent
Is 11: 1-10; Lk 10: 21 -24
Integrity is the loincloth round his waist, faithfulness the belt about his hip. Integrity is a quality that is essential about God. And as God's children, we are called first and foremost to grow in our integrity. How will we grow in it, unless we really know that we are called to grow in it? Unless we know and unless we are convinced that the one who calls us is integral and calls us towards integrity, we cannot truly journey towards integrity.
Integrity is the situation presented: the lion sleeping with the lamb, bear playing with a kid and all peaceful on the holy mount- we may say, it's like a child's dream! Precisely because of this Jesus makes that exclamation today: that the Father has revealed such things to mere children while the expert eyes are busy prying over the obvious.
The Child's capacity is underlined here by Christ and advocated as required traits for an integral person! Firstly, it is to see! Having that freshness of perception which would allow the person to observe any simple sign that the Lord gives. Secondly, it is to accept! Sporting that openness of mind that would not rule out any thing as total impossibility, because with God everything is possible and God continuously reveals. Thirdly, the humility with which one is able to heed the call of the Lord, as did the kings and the prophets who waited for the day of the Lord.
We are called by the God of Integrity, to be truly God's sons and daughters, that is to grow in our integrity. Do we really know this God who calls us?
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