6 Feb 2018
“Hypocrites!”: it’s probably the worst thing Jesus called the
Pharisees and scribes. For people who
prided themselves on fidelity to the law of God, “hypocrites” was the worst
thing to be called. But, of course, it
was the truth. They presented themselves
as “the faithful;” and they were…but not necessarily to God. That was the problem. And they didn’t recognize it, which made the
problem much worse.
The Christian life is characterized by many things, one of
which is the interior freedom to “go with the flow” of the Holy Spirit; to make
corrections in the course of life so we stay on track. You know, if you’re driving your car and you
start to drift to the left or the right, you don’t just keep drifting and go
into the ditch; you make a correction.
And we do it without even thinking, really. Well, we do the same in our lives as
disciples of Christ.
If there’s a passage in Scripture, or something in a homily,
or something that a bishop or pope or a friend says which makes you think: “Oh!...maybe
I need to change something in my life,” it’s good to listen to that. It’s good to act on that. We hope that we’ll never hear Jesus call us a
hypocrite, like he did the Pharisees. But
if he says some other truth that we need to hear, it’s good to listen and act
on it—not in fear, but with thanks.
The Lord is our Navigator through life. He’s our GPS who says, “Turn right, turn
left.” And it’s good to listen to him
and to act. He’ll get us to where we’re
going, safe and sound.
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