When we look at the readings of today, we will get to see that actually God does not demand too much of us.
God does not expect us to go to extremes to express our faith in Him.
In fact, it can be said that God cares about those who are weak in faith and He doesn’t demand too much, so that everyone will be able to do what God wants of them.
As we can see from the 1st reading, God only wants the following to show that what He wants of us is to do what is fundamentally human:
Cease to do evil. Learn to do good, search for justice, help the oppressed, be just to the orphan, plead for the widow.
That is something that can be done. All that is required of us is to be in touch with our basic human nature.
But as much as that can be done, our broken human nature resorts to pride, selfishness and greed.
Hence, we seek attention at the expense of others, and we put others down to boost our pride and ego.
We ask the Lord our God to forgive us and to heal our broken human nature so that we will learn to be humble and to help others with love.