My real worth - where does it come from?

WORD 2day: Tuesday, 32nd week in Ordinary time

November 8, 2022: Titus 2: 1-8, 11-14; Luke 17: 7-10

Where does one's real worth come from? From one's age or the social status offered in the public domain or from the great successes and achievements that are exhibited to the world? As a person, one's true worth comes from within, says the Word today. 

It comes from within, meaning, each of us understands what one is called to, what our commission is and live it on a daily basis, without making any fuss out of it. At times we see some persons who do a little that they do, and go about trumpeting it all around. Worse still some do not do anything at all but go around creating an opinion as if they have moved mountains. Let us hope, you and me, we do not belong to any of these categories! There is something that is worst of all these - doing everything that we do, merely to be noticed, to be praised and to be given the social recognition that I am an important person in the vicinity.

A typically Christ-like attitude is what we see in the Gospel today. Doing good because we are good! It is not the other way around that we would like to prove that we are good, by doing good! We need to believe that there is an innate goodness placed by our Creator within us. 

Yes, Christian life is all about living the essential goodness that we have within from the very fact that we are children of God and never expecting to be lauded for what we do, because what we do is what we have to do! Jesus puts it so plainly in today's Gospel: we are just unworthy servants of the Lord who is good (Lk 17:10).