Reasons to Be Good

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

October 20, 2022: Ephesians 3: 14-21; Luke 12: 49-53

People are afraid to be good these days! Fear of manipulation, exploitation and of being taken for granted, are so alive and real that persons hesitate to be good and to hold on to what is good. The Word today gives us three reasons why we cannot afford to be afraid of being good:

1. Because we take on our heredity from none less than the Almighty Lord: The Lord is our banner; the Lord is our identity, it is from the Lord we take our name, as a family of God. God is good, and all that time! Goodness is the very nature of God. And how can we be other than good?

2. Because the Love of God is poured into our hearts: A love whose measure, we can never comprehend to the full - the length and breadth and depth and height of it, are so immense that we cannot but be concerned about being worthy of that love; which entails that we grow always to be good in our very being!

3. Because we have a Vocation to be a Community of Counter Culture: Jesus commissions us to be the People of the Reign, which is to be a people of counter culture, proposing a culture that is opposed to the culture of social sin, against the culture of injustice and exploitation, challenging the culture of imbalanced growth and inhuman development, resisting the culture of total human insensitivity. When we intend to be such a community of counter culture, the rest of the world may turn against us. 

Jesus makes it clear today: if you choose me, choose me absolutely... and Be Good come what may!