WORD 2day: Tuesday, 33rd week in Ordinary time
November 19, 2024: Revelation 3: 1-6,14-20; Luke 19:1-10
Choices and compromises make a great difference in Christian living; what matters is not so much what we do as what we intend to. Our heart and our intentions matter much more than acts and results. This is both an advantage and a disadvantage for the human heart.
Advantage for those who are sincere with their efforts to remain true and dedicated to the Lord, inspite of their shortfalls. Disadvantage for those who create an aura around themselves as if they are spiritual giants while there rest skeletons inside the closet conveniently covered off, but the Lord knows all and sees all.
Our innermost disposition is what truly decides who we really are! It is from these innermost dispositions that we make our choices. You cannot remain both dead and alive at the same time; hot and cold at the same time; or belonging and not belonging to the Lord at the same time! You have to make a choice and choices are all!
Like Zacchaeus who not only changed from his old ways but was ready to make up for the past mistakes, for his wrong doings and every thing that made others' lives less happy, we are called everyday to make some drastic choices. The choice is ours - to keep to our hidden ways or to open up and let Jesus in! And once he comes, things cannot remain the same! Let our choices be translated into acts of commitment. Acts of grandeur lacking true internal choices cannot bear the true lasting fruits that we long for.
Choices matter: am I cold or hot, my heart closed or open?