WE should not be
surprised by this reality. No matter how much we try to keep ourselves
clean—physically, mentally, spiritually, etc.—we always manage to get dirty in
one way or another, sooner or later. That’s part of our limited and wounded
condition here in this world where we are expected to go supernatural from
natural, spiritual from the merely material, etc.
We should just learn how to deal properly with this condition, never
losing hope since God, our Father, will always understand us and is eager to
offer us mercy and whatever else we need to gain our eternal destiny.
We are somehow reminded of this fact of life in that gospel parable
where Christ talked about a dishonest steward who, trying to save his
employment, had to do some cheating and yet was praised by the master for
having the wisdom of the children of the world which is greater than that of
the children of light. (cfr. Lk 16,11-13)
Obviously, that parable would give rise to the question of whether
God, who must have been personified in some way by the rich man, would just be
ok with some cheating, with being dishonest, with being calculating as a
leverage for one’s personal gain and interest.
I suppose what the parable is trying to tell and teach us is that
Christ is being realistic with our situation in this world. We try to put
everything in our life right, clean and moral. But no matter what we do, we
would always be hounded by evil and by all kinds of dirt, physical, moral,
spiritual.
This parable seems to tell us that we should just learn how to live
with this condition and do our best to come out ok in the eyes of God in the
end. What may be considered as aggravating circumstance in human justice may be
regarded as a saving grace in God’s eyes.
We may have to handle dirt in our life and deal with situations that
are fraught with moral irregularities, but as long as we do not compromise what
is essential, which is love that comes from God as shown by Christ who became
like sin without committing sin (cfr. 2 Cor 5,21), then things will just turn
out ok.
In this life, in this world, we just have to be ready to get dirty
without compromising what is truly essential in our spiritual life. Evil is
unavoidable in this world, and we just have to know how to deal with it, always
focused on going toward our eternal destiny with God in heaven.
We should not worry too much about the dirt, because we have been
given all the assurances that if we are with God, everything would just turn
our right. The challenge now is how to handle the many evil things that will
always get mixed up with the essential good of this life and of this world that
all come from God.
Evil does not have the last word, unless we let it. It is the good
that will have the last word. And so, we just have to learn how to go through
such things as cooperating with evil materially, not formally, if only to
change things for the better.
We have to learn to distinguish between what is a tolerable
cooperation in evil and an intolerable one. With the former, we should feel the
obligation to do whatever we can to clean up what is evil in a given situation,
system or structure.
So, we have to be ready to properly live this unavoidable condition
of our life here where evil and its increasingly powerful structures are
sprouting around like mushrooms.
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