Proverbs 3:27-34 / Luke 8:16-18
It is not very comfortable to know that you are being watched.
Even the feeling that you are being watched can be quite creepy.
With
the emphasis on security concerns, there are closed-circuit cameras in
public as well as private buildings and in lift-lobbies and corridors.
Yet as much as we know that we are being watched, we do not know who is watching us.
But being Christians, we must accept the fact that we are being watched whether we like it or not.
Because people will watch us when they know we are Christians.
They will look at us to see if we live up to our identity as Christians.
Yet Jesus did not tell us to be prepared to be watched by others.
In fact, He says that we should be like the light that makes people see.
As
children of the Light and Truth, our thoughts, our words, our actions
should be transparent, sincere and honest for all to see.
The 1st reading from the book of Proverbs gives directions in life that might sound rather basal and banal.
Yet these directions form the wisdom of life that ask us this basic question:
What will we choose to do if we know that no one is watching us?