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Each person’s worldview can be simply divided into what they can see and understand as good and evil. Even the most complex of thinkers and the most intelligent among us will essentially reject what they think is not good and accept what they believe is good. We can say that we are caught up in our own thinking of what we truly believe is good. This I mean, regardless of being Catholic or not, we humans are generally making decisions constantly from the time we wake up until we go to sleep.
When the disciples decided to follow Jesus, they recognised initially someone who is greater than them personally. Someone who could give them something more than what they have, even though they may have not even realised what exactly it is that they were seeking from Him. Someone who teaches things that they could not understand and does things that completely baffles them and yet they could identify in Him something totally good and pure in whatever He was saying and doing.
In the second reading today, we see this being spoken by James as if he’s speaking about some sayings or proverbs, but when he writes “the wisdom that comes down from above is essentially something pure” and continues further with the description of it as making for “peace, kindly, considerate, full of compassion and shows itself by doing good, nor is there any trace of partiality or hypocrisy in it”.
How apt it is for us to realise this, for even as they were present physically with Jesus, they were not in ‘true prayer’ with Jesus and hence could not truly hear and could not really desire to understand what Jesus is saying and more importantly, who Jesus truly is and what He is actually doing for them; even as He is instructing them privately and what actually they must do, for them to be doing His work so that others who are like the child may see that Jesus sent them and more importantly...
For we who were godless at one time or another, are always in danger of rejecting the virtuous man who in this instance is Christ Himself in our life since He comes to annoy us, opposes our way of life that is not His Way, reproaches us for breaching His teachings especially on loving one another as He has loved us, and accuses us, not in order to shame us but in order to draw us back to the one who sent Him, our Father.
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