Integrity - oneness of vision!

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

October 25, 2024 - Ephesians 4: 1-6; Luke 12: 54-59

When dealing with problems between persons, ordinarily we find it difficult to trace a way out of it, not because there is no way, but because both the parties do not want to see the way! That is why they say,  'we can arouse the person who sleeps, but not the ones who pretend to sleep!' It is true: for most of the problems today, it is not that we do not have a solution, but we do not want to arrive at it.

Jesus gives a piece of his mind to the pharisees and scribes today in the Gospel, because he finds in them the hypocrisy of not choosing things that were so obviously towards the right. How many times, we know very well that we are at fault, but just to save our face we try so many ways of justifying ourselves. Or when we find someone known or close to us at fault, we close an eye and criticise the others! 

The problems in the world are due to the lack of oneness of vision that afflicts us... each of us with a selfish agenda, individual groups with unfounded prejudices, particular classes with insensitive urge for advancement, certain persons with inhuman tendencies of manipulation and exploitation... these are those who could not care less about the golden rule. 

At times we have a set of rules for ourselves and a completely different one for others. In those cases, we become people filled with discrepancies and disparities, and we render ourselves least likely to enter the Reign of God - says Jesus today. What we are called to is, a oneness of vision within us, and among us!