EGO - the antonym of Christian Love
Friday, 6th week in Ordinary Time
Gen 11:1-9; Mk 8:34 - 9:1
Christian definition of Love is 'wishing the good of the other' and if this is what love means, its opposite is not hate but Ego! When I begin to look at me, mine and myself, when I begin to do anything to achieve my end, when everything around me is only an object for me to use for my good and even persons are means to my ends, that is Ego.
The Word enumerates what one loses when the ego in the person grows...the person loses God, the person loses peace, the person loses the other! Godlessness, Division and Hatred - these are the three dominant viles that the humanity faces today. Godlessness that has made the human person arrogant; Division that makes the humanity broken; and Hatred that keeps tearing apart humanity on a daily basis. Jesus invites us to throw this ego behind and walk towards genuine love, pick up the daily cross for others' sake and walk with the Lord.