In perpetual search for a higher level of holiness

We children of God are called not to live a passive life. The life of the Christian is a dynamic life, of perpetual process, we must be in continuous alert and continuous surrender to the Lord.

It makes me sad to admit it but most Christians live rather in an attitude of conformism, of passivity and we believe that the Christian life is simply going to church on Sundays, sitting on a bench there to listen to a half sermon and then return to our house and come back next Sunday to do the same and with that we believe that we are already fulfilling the call of the Christian life when it comes to something totally different; It is about a perpetual surrender, a perpetual question before the Lord: Lord, what do I have to do to please You, how can I give You another part of my being so that You can transform me, making me more like Christ?

The Christian life is more a life of discipline, of continual warfare, of perpetual activity, of continual transformation and improvement. I think of the words of the psalmist David when he says: "Examine me O God and know my heart, test me and know my thoughts and see if there is in my way of wickedness and guide me on the eternal way." That should be the position of every Christian who takes the Christian life seriously.

It is an attitude of: Lord, through Your Holy Spirit, you are continually illuminating my life, examining different areas of my being: attitudes, behaviors, words, thoughts and shine on that and make me aware of any area of sin, evil, injustice. and guide me on the path of truth, love, justice and holiness. Everything that is twisted in my life Lord let me know, make me aware of it, put in me a sense of urgency and abhorrence of those negative things and then help me to re-channel my energies and adjust to the path of holiness and justice.

The Christian life is not easy, life is not for cowards, the Christian life is not for cowardly and conformist people, it is a life for warriors, for soldiers of the Spirit who are continually alert in prayer, fasting, in perpetual search for that level. highest of holiness.

And by the way, I don't want you to feel tired and overwhelmed with this, as it is a life like a monk in a cave whipping you on the back and hating the beautiful things in the world, quite the opposite. When we live life continually surrendering ourselves to the Lord, subjecting ourselves to His Word, that allows us to live a much lighter, more joyful, more deprived life, more in harmony with the laws that God has established in the world and then comes peace, joy, blessing and even prosperity and progress in our life; the joy in the Lord, the harmony with our loved ones, a more Christlike fatherhood, the love of our fellow men and the joy and satisfaction of seeing ourselves being used by the Lord in teaching, in counseling, in evangelism . It is a precious life.

Paradoxically, as we put ourselves off and surrender to the Lord and let Him crucify us and make us a living sacrifice, we are then experiencing the joy of the Lord, we are experiencing that abundant life which Christ came to give us. What truly leads to suffering, suffering, contradictions and agonies in the world is the unredeemed life, the life not surrendered to the Lord, the life that simply wants to live freely without being subject to the principles of the Gospel that life then leads to the contradictions and suffering and losses and failure.

But when we let the Lord deal with us then that life of alertness, that life of discipline, that life of continually living as a sacrifice before God then leads to peace, to joy. So at no time is it understood that this call to be in a dynamic life of perpetual discipleship means a life of a monk there in agony but is what allows us then to live a life of liberation.

But it has to be that way, there is a price to pay. The conformist person, the Christian, the person who thinks that by striking out the card he has already done what he has to do, he is deceiving himself. Entering the Gospel means entering a life of letting God treat us, crucify us, purify us, I continue to ask the Lord and the Holy Spirit: what do you want me to do? and then by renewing our understanding we can see things in a different way.

See then that the things that before seemed good and just in the world in the light of the understanding of the Word are not like that and that the things that seemed to us oh an injustice or why do I have to do this? now they make perfect sense in light of the Word of the Lord. May the Lord bless you and until our next meditation.