WORD 2day: Friday, 29th week in Ordinary time
For I do not do the good I want; but I do the evil I do not want - we all know well when we falter. As the psalmist words it: "for I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me" (Ps 51:3). Sin, that St. Paul speaks of today, is something that I do, or I give into consciously.
None of us can feign ignorance and Jesus explains precisely that today in the Gospel: knowing exactly what is coming up the horizon! If only I am more sensitively aware of what happens within me at a given moment, to what I am committing myself to, of what I am giving into, of what I am permitting into my mind, my thinking and my life... I can preserve myself from so much of pain and patch up.
The statutes are present within me in my heart, the Saviour abides ever at my side... all that I need to is turn to the Lord and to the Word of the Lord to be assisted, strengthened and saved!