“Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks.” (Luke 12:35).
The Saints live a life that is very different from the rest of the world.
They lived in a way that was holy. And that holiness was reflected in their manner of living that was completely in unity with God. In other words, they understood that God was with them always and that they were supposed to be with God at all times – if not in God’s physical presence, then in His spiritual presence.
When I was at university – many moons ago – one of my lecturers was teaching us about tax evasion. During our lectures she used a simple example, and she said that people who are driving on the road, tend to drive slower and more carefully when they see a police car on the road. And she went on to explain that even when people are following all the road rules and are not breaking any rules, they are still likely to drive more carefully when a police car is nearby.
And I have been thinking about that in terms of unity. For the Saints experience that Unity with God and that is what causes them to drive more carefully – so to speak. And that careful driving of the Saints is what causes them to make choices that are for the good.
Christ warned us about this when He said…
“Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the marriage feast, so that they may open to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes; truly, I say to you, he will gird himself and have them sit at table, and he will come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those servants!” (Luke 12:35-38).
And it occurs to me today that I am a child of God and as a child of the Divine, it is my duty to understand that God is in unity with me. And being in that presence in my mind is surely the critical factor that contributes to my salvation.
After all, there is NOTHING that I can do to save myself. The only thing that I actually can do is to unite myself to God. And it is for this reason that Saint Paul the Apostle decided (with Saint Simon Peter) that the Christians would not observe the Jewish rules of Moses about food and circumcision. And this was because he knew that it was not possible to save yourself and instead you would need to surrender yourself to God. And that is an amazing thing. Because without complete surrender to God – as a CHILD – nobody can be saved…
For with prayer, I stand on Holy Ground where everything is clear. Here. At the Foot of the Cross.
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