HOLINESS IS WHOLENESS
Thursday in the 3rd Week of Lent
Luke 11: 14-23
Do you feel scattered, fragmented, diffused? Jesus holds the answer to your ailment. Gather with Jesus. Gather in Jesus. Gather through Jesus.
There are many times when even in the midst of all the good things we do, we feel unhappy. What is the source of our happiness? In the good things we do? If so, then we will really be unhappy because Jesus, not the good things we do, is the one and only source of happiness and joy. Gather with Jesus.
We join so many church organizations and movements, but we are so heavily burdened. Have we not yet learned from the mistake of spreading ourselves too thin? The quantity of our commitments is far lesser important than their quality. Better for us to belong to one than to a hundred groups than belong to a hundred groups but never be committed to one. Jesus, not the organizations and movements we belong to, makes us valuable. Gather in Jesus.
We have many valid concerns, but only one is important. What is important is what is important for Jesus. We must learn and actually practice the way of spiritual discernment to recognize the values of Jesus. In doing so we can focus ourselves on what is important for Jesus and orient everything to it. Through Jesus, we avoid being fragmented in paying attention to our many concerns. Gather through Jesus.
A divided community is bad. A divided household is worse. But an individual divided in himself or herself is worst. Only with Jesus can we arrive at wholeness again. Only in Jesus can we be whole again. Only through Jesus can wholeness really be holiness.
It is not by Beelzebul that Jesus drives out demons, for by driving demons out of the afflicted Jesus makes the afflicted whole again. Jesus drives out demons by the power of God that is inherent in Him because the power of God is a power that gathers, not scatters, a power that unites, not divides, a power that makes whole again.
We are all busy, who is not? We are all burdened, who is not? We are all pulled towards opposite direction, who is not? But our preoccupations, our burdens, and everything that demands our attention need not ruin us, unless we do not gather with, in and through Jesus.
Do you feel scattered, fragmented, diffused? Talk to Jesus. He has the cure.
Luke 11: 14-23
Do you feel scattered, fragmented, diffused? Jesus holds the answer to your ailment. Gather with Jesus. Gather in Jesus. Gather through Jesus.
There are many times when even in the midst of all the good things we do, we feel unhappy. What is the source of our happiness? In the good things we do? If so, then we will really be unhappy because Jesus, not the good things we do, is the one and only source of happiness and joy. Gather with Jesus.
We join so many church organizations and movements, but we are so heavily burdened. Have we not yet learned from the mistake of spreading ourselves too thin? The quantity of our commitments is far lesser important than their quality. Better for us to belong to one than to a hundred groups than belong to a hundred groups but never be committed to one. Jesus, not the organizations and movements we belong to, makes us valuable. Gather in Jesus.
We have many valid concerns, but only one is important. What is important is what is important for Jesus. We must learn and actually practice the way of spiritual discernment to recognize the values of Jesus. In doing so we can focus ourselves on what is important for Jesus and orient everything to it. Through Jesus, we avoid being fragmented in paying attention to our many concerns. Gather through Jesus.
A divided community is bad. A divided household is worse. But an individual divided in himself or herself is worst. Only with Jesus can we arrive at wholeness again. Only in Jesus can we be whole again. Only through Jesus can wholeness really be holiness.
It is not by Beelzebul that Jesus drives out demons, for by driving demons out of the afflicted Jesus makes the afflicted whole again. Jesus drives out demons by the power of God that is inherent in Him because the power of God is a power that gathers, not scatters, a power that unites, not divides, a power that makes whole again.
We are all busy, who is not? We are all burdened, who is not? We are all pulled towards opposite direction, who is not? But our preoccupations, our burdens, and everything that demands our attention need not ruin us, unless we do not gather with, in and through Jesus.
Do you feel scattered, fragmented, diffused? Talk to Jesus. He has the cure.
posted by Fr. Bobby @ 4:00 PM
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