Alert! Know what is coming up the horizon!

WORD 2day: Friday, 29th week in Ordinary time

October 25, 2019: Romans 7: 18-25; Luke 12: 54-59

For I do not do the good I want; but I do the evil I do not want - we all know well when we falter, as the psalmist words it, "for I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me" (Ps 51:3). Sin, as St. Paul speaks of today, is something that I do, or I give into, consciously. None of us can feign ignorance and Jesus explains precisely that today in the Gospel: knowing exactly what is coming up the horizon! 

If only I am more sensitively aware of what happens within me at a moment, to what I am committing myself to, of what I am giving into, of what I am permitting into my mind and out of it, of my thinking and my life... I can preserve myself from so much of pain and patch up. The statutes are present within me in my heart, the Saviour abides ever at my side...all that I need to, is turn to the Lord and to the Word of the Lord to be assisted, strengthened and saved! 

We need to remember and beware, that our innermost thoughts become words, which get translated into actions, creating habits and getting formed into attitudes. These attitudes determine our choices and repeated choices manifest our priorities! This is precisely why we are called to be attentive to what is happening within us - our thoughts, our tendencies and our most secret beings!

Let us be ever alert to what is coming up on the horizon, in order not to fall prey to the evil; the fall may be slow and gradual, but once we give in, "we will not be released until we pay the last penny!" warns the Word today. The salvation is in Christ Jesus, let us know, choose and drink in Christ; put on Christ and grow in his image!