Holy Spirit of Christ, help me clean up my heart to follow only You…

Mark 7, 14-23

 
If we are what we eat, then it seems that we do what we ‘eat’ in our hearts, that is what we contemplate.  Jesus tells us that all sins and abominations of human character  - his list of 12 undeniably harmful and anti-social behaviors - come from evil human intentions that have been allowed to take over our hearts. King Solomon experienced this.  Although he  had been gifted by God with wisdom and great riches of all kinds, under pressure from his ungodly wives he chose to ‘burn incense’, that is to pray, to idols and foreign gods that had nothing to do with the life and breath that God had given him.  As a result he sacrificed to these gods, giving over more and more of his own power and substance  to evil, false and ungodly – and arguably inhuman – practices, such as those listed by our Lord. Today in this age of Grace brokered by Christ Jesus, we still have the choices of Solomon before us. We (I) will become what  we (I) eat! And my heart will do, and my lips speak, what I contemplate!   Will I ‘burn incense’ , that is pray and contemplate, in my heart the love and the mercy of God, or will I turn my heart over to thoughts of vengeance, power, possessions and self-centered plans dictated by the gods of our present day society? Will I expend my time, treasure, talent and strength to follow these false gods,  or will I follow in word and deed the One who is true, the Living, Loving Redeemer of humankind? Holy Spirit of Christ, help me clean up my heart to follow only You.  
 
Happy are those who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times.   (Psalm 106:3)
 
The things that we love tell us what we are.
St. Mother Teresa
 
 
Soli ad gloriam
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