+ Our readings today are pointed and right on time. St. Paul, through Bishop
Titus, is laying the groundwork for millennia of Christian attitudes, guidelines,
and boundaries. If you belong to Christ then the presence of the Holy Spirit,
his Father’s gift and his, will inform all that you think, say and do, and
therefore you will appear to be “different” from the wild, boundary-less,
children of the world and of the devil.
Words like: “temperate,
dignified, self-controlled, reverent in behavior, models of good deeds, using
sound speech and giving God the credit for all these things – accompany those
who truly have Christ as their King, their Lord and their Savior.
The gospel passage reminds us
that we are to do these things classifying ourselves as “unprofitable servants”
who have done “what we were obliged to do.” This reflects the fact that the
very power to do any of these virtuous deeds does not come from us, for without
God’s grace, we can literally not even move a muscle.
When we recognize that God is
God and we are not – then we will act as his true children, dependent on him
for everything we need to use the talents and gifts he has given us to make
life better for others – as we progress
in our journey through this vale of tears to the teeming shores of the Waters
of Life that flow from the very White Throne of God in his heavenly Temple!
Trust
in the Lord and do good, that you may dwell in his native land and be
granted your heart’s deepest requests.
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