Purify your heart!

Our lives, our society as well as our worship or religion have been corrupt and diluted. Today many are using Religion as device for their material gain; as a power to brainwash and manipulate people instead of making of a powerful instrument of worship and liberation. The temple of God must draw us closer to God and become more and more like Him. No wonder John the Baptist could tell Jesus: “I must decrease and He must increase” (John 3:30). The aim of our worship is to increase the presence and the power of the divine in us so that our fleshy passions may decrease. By cleansing the temple Jesus explicitly attacks by words and actions the corruption that was taking place within the temple by the chief priests who were benefitting from the collected taxes. So we must fight against corruption in all its forms. May our message against corruption be firm and our actions be bold! Above all Jesus is concerned about the temple of our heart which is the first place of encounter with God. Jesus tells us that “the lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore if your eye is good, your whole body is full of light. But if it is bad the full body will be full of darkness” (Mt 6:22-33). Our relationship with the neighbor often depends on the cleanliness of our heart. And my heart will truly be God’s temple if I see God as love, as forgiveness and mercy as revealed by Jesus. My heart can truly become a temple of prayer and worship if only I allow the Holy Spirit to remove from it, the lies, the cheating, the stealing, and the anger and anything that opposes God’s spirit.

Lord, may you find love and worship in the temple of my heart. May I worship you in spirit and in truth (Jean 4:24)