Good morning good people,
May the Lord give you peace, health and happiness in the Holy Spirit.
It is 03rd September 2024.
We reflect on 1 Corinthians 2:10-16 and Luke 4:31-37.
Whose mind do we have? Christ or the worldly?
The Word of God has the inherent power to deal with evil head-on. God’s word can cast out any evil or the works of the devil in us and around us.
It is very difficult for us to be spiritual and to value spiritual things just because we do not communicate and value the Spirit of God in our lives.
The vitality of the human person resides in the spirit of the person without reducing the importance of the human body.
To believe and accept the mysteries and plan of God, everyone needs the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
For some of us to be spiritual means outward piety. It is spontaneous to be materialistic and worldly while to be spiritual everyone has made certain effort to live a life with the help and guidance of the spirit of God. We can never know, love, understand and serve God without the help of the Holy Spirit.
It is not what others see and value in ourselves but what God sees and values as we are with the power of the Spirit of God.
The human spirit is valued recognised and enhanced spiritually by the Holy Spirit.
Our physical life alone cannot help us to understand, love, know and serve God. The worldly power, pride, lust and avarice can never offer any sustenance to the spirit of the person.
The responsorial Psalm praises, “The Lord is just in all his ways.” (Ps.144:17).
Having been rejected by his own home town, Jesus began His ministry and mission in Capernaum that becomes his second home town. Jesus the Word of God dispels the darkness and directly deals with the evil spirit.
When we have the Word of God in our hearts and lives, we do not need to fear any evil power or evil spirit. Nothing can harm us including the roaring of the devil around us when we are able to become an abode for the Word of God to reside.
The evil spirit and the unspiritual persons know the power of the Word of God and its impact on them. In meeting the needs and demands of the world, let us not suppress and surrender our spirit to the world of evil and its token of pleasures.
Let us truly be serious about our spiritual lives daily and accommodate the Word of God as the source of peace and hope in our lives.
May you have a good day.