This tremendous praise made by Christ to St. John the
Baptist can only highlight the most important task St. John has done
in the whole economy of human salvation. And we have to realize that
that task somehow is also ours. We have to realize more deeply that we
have the serious duty to prepare ourselves for the ultimate purpose of
our life, which is none other than to be ‘another Christ.’
We have to help one another in the pursuit of this real goal
of our life without getting confused, entangled and lost in our
earthly affairs. If ever, these earthly and temporal affairs only
serve as means and constant occasions to aim at that goal. They are
our pathways to heaven and to God, to share in his divine life as we
are meant to do.
We should be very clear about this basic truth about the
world in general or about the whole of nature that has been created by
God. We need to realize that as God’s creation, the whole world of
nature has been imprinted with God’s laws that are meant to give glory
to God and to lead us also to him, giving him glory as well. In other
words, depending on how we see the world, it is actually a pathway to
heaven, to God.
Everything that we discover and make use of in the world
should lead us to ask ourselves whether what we are discovering are
truly in accordance to God’s will, to his true designs of the world,
and whether we can discern how they can be used to give glory to God,
which is a matter of loving him and serving the whole of humanity.
We have to be wary of the danger of discovering and using
things simply in accordance to our own understanding of them and also
to our interest only. This is a common and abiding danger that we have
to be most wary about. We have to do everything to avoid and overcome
that danger.
Thus, we have to develop that strong and deep attitude of
always referring things to God before we put our hands on them. That
way, we would be putting ourselves on the right track that hopefully
will lead us to God and to see and use things the way they should be
seen and used.
This attitude, of course, would require us to be guided
always by our Christian faith, instead of just being guided by our
human estimation of things. And for that faith to be effective in us,
we obviously need to be humble. Without humility, there is no way
faith can have any effect on us.
We should be looking for God always in everything that we
get involved in. In all the things that we do or handle, we should be
asking what are there in those things that are for God, rather than
being interested only on what are there in those things that are for
us.
This basically is what would comprise as our proper duty to
prepare for our ultimate end.
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