God's holiness in us!

WORD 2day: Thursday, 20th week in Ordinary time

August 20, 2020: Ezekiel 36: 23-28; Matthew 22:1-14

God wishes to display God's holiness in us... what a realisation if only we understand what God wants to communicate by this. At times we reduce our human nature to sinfulness and wickedness, jealousy and egocentrism, lawlessness and insensitivity. 'I am only human, I am just a man or a woman', we tend to justify all our shortcomings and failures. 

The truth is not that. It is not true that we human beings are evil and miserable. The real truth is that we possess within us the holiness of God, the splendour of God, the glorious and majestic image of God. If only we realise it! When we understand our true nature and the spirit that dwells within us - the spirit from the Lord, our world view will be entirely different and our perspective holistic. That wholeness is Holiness, and that holiness is God's splendour within us. 

We are called to be holy...holiness here is knowing the right perspectives of life and living with right priorities on a daily basis. The Word today seem to underline the urgency of responding to the invitation of God. We claim to have accepted the invitation, but if we do not have this balanced perspective and wholesome priorities, we are doomed to be cast out from that presence of the Lord. For it is no holiness that does not result in concrete wholeness!