Good - All the time!

WORD 2day: Monday, 23rd week in Ordinary Time

September 9, 2019: Colossians 1:24 - 2:3; Luke 6: 6-11

Jesus' life and teaching hold out to us a challenge that consists of a simple,  uncomplicated criterion but highly demanding. The criterion is: Be good. 

You may have to suffer,  take on yourself burdens and brickbats,  be misunderstood and be rash judged... what are you going to do? Lose your nerves and let loose your temperament? Throw your ideals into the air and fall in line with the so-called wicked world? No. The answer is simple: Be good. 

At any given point if you are left with a question... what to do,  or what next,  or what has got to be my reaction, what should be my response right then... it is simple: Be good.

Never lose your goodness for anything or anyone's sake. What would be your merit, if you were to be good when it is convenient for you? What have you truly achieved if you are good to those who have been good to you? Irrespective of these antecedents, the call you have is to be good!

Certainly we have heard, even sung the famous number of Don Moen -God is good, all the time! It is not enough to believe that God is good all the time; it is important that I be good all the time and never grow weary of doing good (cf 2 Thes 3: 13).

Let the call resound throughout this day: Be good! All the time!