You shall not commit adultery… Mt 5,27

To pluck out the eye, to cut off the hand. Is Jesus serious? Anyone who honestly questions his conscience would have to cut off or pluck something! Jesus is certainly not concerned about literally mutilating my body. He wants to emphasize to me that the moral purity of my heart and body is essential to him. Through movies, magazines, books, computers, and lightly clad women, I am bombarded with a barrage of nudity, immorality, cruelty, or uncommitted relationships that want to convince me that Jesus must not have been all that serious about those plucked out eyes and severed hands. But the opposite is true. His words, as “harsh” as they sound, still apply today, whether I realize it and accept them or am indifferent to them. If I think that God will overlook my sinful thoughts, looks, words, touches, and relationships in that mass of people, I am very much mistaken. Today, I am going to think about how I will learn to control my views and ideas thanks to Jesus.

Lord, I ask You for the grace and strength to live purely and morally.

In one book, a girl becomes a prostitute through unfortunate circumstances. However, the love of a God-fearing, introverted man changes her life and his. But it all began in God, who blessed their relationship and gave them the strength not to give up, and the love that made it all make sense. If God could do this with such characters in the book (prostitute, introvert), how much more so in our lives. Love is what helps us take care of our children, even though we are tired to death; love is what allows us to go to work to earn money for our families; love is what helps us cook lunch and make coffee for others, even though we have fought with them. These acts of love and humility are precisely what the world needs to combat superficiality, childishness, and pride. How did I do today? Among today’s deeds, will we find acts of love, humility, dignity, and superficiality?