The Light and Darkness

 

Part XXXXVI

Lord, let Your Light brings us the uprightness and uplift our faith in You

  Jesus' act of passion and death on the Cross had a profoundly redeeming impact that we cannot comprehend. When I read these verses, I have a wonderful experience of his magnificent trip to sacrifice himself on the Cross. The audience that followed him consisted of people from all walks of life, both physically and spiritually. On his route to Calvary, Jesus stripped and paraded all of the ruling forces to demonstrate how he would bear the sacrifice on the Cross and bring salvation to all humanity. Jesus transformed the shameful crucifixion into the triumphant cross of his death. He has wiped  all our debt to the Law and nailed everything on the Cross which none can do either in heaven or on earth. Colossians 2:14–15 (NJB): He has wiped out the record of our debt to the Law, which stood against us; he has destroyed it by nailing it to the cross; 15 and he has stripped the sovereignties and the ruling forces, and paraded them in public, behind him in his triumphal procession. 

  Lord is telling us through Apostle Paul about the life of darkness and light to distinguish them. ‘Do not harness yourselves in and uneven team with unbelievers; how can uprightness and law-breaking be partners, or what can light and darkness have in common? How can Christ come to an agreement with Belial and what sharing can there be between a believer and an unbeliever? The temple of God cannot compromise with false gods, and that is what we are—the temple of the living God….’ (2 Cor. 6: 14- 16) There is no compromise between light and dark. Those who live in sin are in darkness; they are simply worldly folks who know nothing about Jesus and his Kingdom. They are unaware of the genuine Truth (Jesus is the Truth). We shouldn't associate with them. They are ordinary individuals who lack understanding of God and His wisdom. How can we collaborate with them on any beneficial works in God's Kingdom. They worship false gods and have no knowledge of the actual God. When we believe in one God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, we are unique. The secular doctrine misleads the majority of Christians, as does ecumenical collaboration with false religions, communities, and heretics. Br. Victor taught us about the actuality of the Spirit, which lives in the Catholic Church. We should seek the truth from God's Holy Spirit. We can wait patiently for the Holy Spirit's response to get real guidance. He will teach us what to do and what not do. ‘And so shall it be also when you separate the sacred from the profane, the unclean from the clean.’ (Lev. 10: 10) We cannot compromise with them or any kind of collaboration with them. They have no knowledge of what is holy and unholy things. Br. Victor told in one of his talk: ‘If you start business with any pagan or any non believer in Christ, your business will snatched away from you in few years and they will take over you and will loose all your money and wealth.’ St. Paul again says about such peoples: ‘In other words, since they would not consent to acknowledge of God, God abandoned them to their unacceptable thoughts and indecent behaviour. And so now they are steeped in all sorts of injustice, rottenness, greed and malice; full of envy, murder, wrangling, treachery and spite, libellers, slanderers, enemies of God, rude, arrogant and boastful, enterprising in evil, rebellious to parents, without brains, honour, love or pity. They are well aware of God’s ordinance: that those who believe like this deserve to die—yet they not only do it, but even applaud others who do the same.’ (Rom. 1: 28-32) Our lives should not be like this, and we should not disobey the Law of our Lord. Heretical doctrine and deceptive doctrines will reach us, including from close Church associates. But we are endowed with the best, which was bestowed upon us by our Spiritual Founder, Br. Victor, and his companion Br. Shaji. Their teachings were the undiluted Word of God, as imparted by our Brothers.  ‘At least we do not adulterate the word of God, so many do, but it is in all purity, as envoys of God and in God’s presence that we speak in Christ.’(1Cor. 2:17)