6 He (Jesus) replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites;
as it is written:
“‘These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
7 They worship me in vain;
their teachings are merely human rules.’"
No one sets out to be a hypocrite. We too easily become one when we let our greed, jealousy, pride, folly keep us from being congruent from the inside out.
Maybe the best way to be religious is to not try to be religious. Be spiritual! Open, loving, sensitive, kind, gentle, compassionate, etc. To be religious is to be a warm caring human being who lifts life up for others. It is to have a secret - God loves me and everyone - and it is to live out that secret in the ordinary affairs of life.
A man once said to Mother Teresa,
“I wouldn’t do what you do for a million dollars.”
To which she replied, “Neither would I,
but I will for the love of God!”
Prayer thought for the week: “Lord, help me to not be so heavenly minded (religious)
that I am no earthly good. Give me strength to live what I believe -
and help me to believe that You love me and everyone.”
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