Letting Jesus enter our homes!

WORD 2day: Tuesday, 33rd week in Ordinary time 

November 17, 2020: Revelation 3: 1-6, 14-22; Luke 19: 1-10

To welcome Jesus into our homes: that is the task given to us by the Word today. Obviously when Jesus comes its a blessing - 'today salvation has come into this house' (Lk 19:9). But it is more than that... it is a Challenge too: 'because you are neither cold nor hot, i will spit you' (cf. Rev 3:16). That is indeed a point to reflect on and think seriously about. 

Letting Jesus in, is fine...but once he comes, things cannot remain the same! You cannot remain both dead and alive at the same time; hot and cold at the same time; or belonging and not belonging to the Lord at the same time! You cannot have certain value systems in the heart and speak of different ones in public; you cannot have hidden motives and feign goodness in your actions and choices; you cannot be both this and that - you have to be either this or that!

The Word instructs me today: I have to make a choice and choices are all! 

Like Zachaeus who not only changed from his old ways but made up even for the mistakes, for his wrong doings and every thing that made others' lives less happy, we are constantly called to make some drastic choices. Choices for good, for what is beautiful in the eyes of the Lord and for what is true. At a given moment, it may be difficult to do it, demanding to make such a choice and requiring a lot of effort and sacrifice. But I cannot imagine otherwise. I have to go through those struggles, take my time, but the Choice, I have to make. That choice will truly determine, who I am and on which side I am. That choice alone can truly say, whether I am ready to let Jesus enter my home, my heart or not!

The choice is ours - to keep to our old ways or to let Jesus enter our homes. The home that he enters, the hearts where he resides...will be marked by the choices, or the Choice 'to be blameless and holy before him' (Eph 1:4).