The task of becoming God's people

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

August 18, 2022: Ezekiel 36: 23-28; Matthew 22:1-14

The readings today seem to underline the urgency of responding to God's invitation. The urgency in no way does away with the demands of the criteria. The demand is not just to be good people, but to be God's people. However we may try, that task seems to be practically impossible, with all the traps and trials around in our living conditions. 

The Lord offers to fill us with Lord's own spirit. It is only through that, one can live according to the norms of the living Lord. By God's invitation to becoming the Lord's people, God wishes to display God's holiness in us... what a realisation if only we understand what God wants to communicate by this invitation to us. 

At times we reduce our human nature to sinfulness and wickedness, jealousy and egocentrism, lawlessness and insensitivity. The truth is not that: the 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! 

We are called to be holy, we are given with the task of becoming God's people...holiness here is knowing the right perspectives of life and living with right priorities, on a daily basis. We claim to have accepted the invitation of God, 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!