The Christ Difference

WORD 2day: Wednesday, 23rd week in Ordinary time

September 11, 2019: Colossians 3: 1-11; Luke 6: 20-26

There is no more Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, slaves or free persons, there is only Christ, says Paul. Christ alone shall make the difference. There is no more religious or lay, catholics or others, believers or non believers, practitioners or indifferent, regular-to-the-Church or non-church-goers... nothing is going to be different because of these externals. There is only Christ and Christ alone shall make all the difference. 

God has chosen each of us, and if God has chosen us in Christ, we have a duty to respond. It is our response in Christ that is going to make the difference. If I choose Christ, if I value Christ, if I value the call that I have received to be a child of God, I have to  show it in my life; I have to live it on a daily basis; I have to prove it at times of real crisis in my practical living. When I choose Christ the difference would certainly be seen. 

Confusing criteria,  disarrayed priorities,  Godless morality,  inhuman ethics and heartless secularisation of the world... this is the context in which we are called to live and profess our faith in Christ. The Word today establishes, that in this context,  we cannot put up with compromises and half baked convictions. We need to make a clear and impeccable difference in and through our lives.

The world stands in need of Spirit-filled Evangelisers, calls out Pope Francis. Let our choice for Christ make a concrete difference in our lives. Let the world around me see the difference, the Christ difference, in me!