St. Paul reminds us in
today’s first reading, 1 Thes 4: 1-8, that God’s will for us is our “holiness.” God wills our integrity, our transparency,
our wholeness, our honesty, our purity, our simplicity; in short, our sacred commitment to Truth, to Life,
to Christ--the way to the Father. God wills that we again become childlike:
innocent, awe-filled, loving and trusting, inclusive, transparent, faith-filled and
hope-filled. God desires that
you and I refrain from immoral acts: acts of evil intent, malicious acts,
hate-filled acts; that we refrain from deceitfulness and from all that is
contrary to godliness, to loving and forgiving as God loves and forgives
us. God wills our good.
What do you will for yourself
and others? Is your will worthy of being
carried out in actuality, that is, are your actions and attitudes in sync with
your innermost desires, those that come from your God-self, or are they aligned
with the propensity to act contrary to God's will, to succumb to the weakness of sin that exist within each one of us?
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