WORD 2day: Friday, 6th week in Ordinary time
February 17, 2023: Genesis 11:1-9; Mark 8:34 - 9:1Christian definition of Love is 'wishing the good of the other' and if this is what love means, its opposite is not hate but Ego!
When I begin to look at me, mine and myself, when I begin to do anything to achieve my end, when everything around me is only an object for me to use, for my good and even persons are means to my ends, that is Ego - and that is absolutely UNCHRISTIAN.
The Word enumerates what one loses when the ego in the person grows... the person loses God, the person loses peace, the person loses the other! Godlessness, Division and Hatred - these are the three dominant viles that the humanity faces today.
Godlessness, that has made the human person arrogant, thinking of oneself as the master of everything and claiming rights over everything, even life - one's own and other's too... leading to inhumanities and killings.
Division that makes humanity broken, leaving us so despicable among the creatures on the face of the earth - not living our life and not letting others live their life, creating a hell out of the earth that is entrusted to our care - killing each other and destroying everything.
Hatred that keeps tearing apart humanity on a daily basis; making us inhuman and cruel, wishing the death of the other and in the mean time promoting and perpetrating a culture of death and decline!
Jesus challenges us to throw this ego behind and walk towards genuine love, pick up the daily cross for others' sake and walk with the Lord. Ego mattered the least to him because he was filled with God; and that is why Ego is the antonym to love accoding to Christ.