RevivaLent 2018 - #31

Revive the understanding of your true identity

Friday, 4th week in Lent: 16th March, 2018

Wis 2: 1a, 12-22; Jn 7: 1-2, 10, 25-30

People need no special reason to reject or condemn some one... it is enough that he or she is different from them. The passage from the book of Wisdom, though written hundreds of years before Christ, seems to fit in exactly to his life, as if it were a direct prophecy about Christ's life and its end. 

Just take another look, it seems to fit into many others' lives too... People who have been evicted because they stood for an ideology or a conviction different from  the rest! Yes, it will fit in to the life of anyone who wishes to live the purpose of one's life to the full. Like Jesus, we are called to be persons who live our life to the full, and be reminders to everyone to live their's. 

Jesus knows that he will be soon laid hands upon, but that would not stop him from being what he were, or doing what he did! It is so important that we understand our real identity with such clarity, to be as strong and determined as Jesus was. 

There are today multitudes who are led by ignorance and malice...both equally to be blamed. Only one who is ignorant can be misled by people with malice and those who act out of malice are ignorant of who they really are, the true beauty that lies within them! 

Let us avoid both - let us know ourselves, understand our true self within, be convinced about our identity as children of God and manifest the same at every moment of our lives.

May the Lord fill us with that understanding and help us revive our true identity!