Tuesday, 11/13/12
The readings today tell us to regard ourselves as nothing
more than servants of the Lord. That’s how Paul introduced himself in his Letter
to the Romans. Then, in Chapter Fourteen of that letter he reminded us that we too are just servants. He wrote, “None of us lives as his own master, none of us
dies as his own master; while we live, we are responsible to the Lord; when we
die, we die as his servants; both in life an in death we are the Lord’s.
In today’s Gospel Jesus reminded us of our need to conduct
ourselves as befitting our lowly status. We wait on the Lord. He doesn’t wait
on us.
Yesterday’s Veterans Day had us recalling such things as the
old boot camps where bugle calls and twenty mile hikes prepared us for
active duty. Today Paul speaks of our need to conduct a spiritual boot camp
where older women are trained to stay away from slandering and drinking, where
young men are trained to show themselves as models of actions and speech that
cannot be criticized.
We have to get that into our noggins, we are not debutants
and play boys, we are servants of the Lord.
1 comment:
AMEN!!!
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