We Will Be Perfect

October 28: Tuesday of Week 30 of Ordinary Time, Year A-II:

Ephesians 5:21-33; Psalm 128:1-2, 3, 4-5; Luke 13:18-21

Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles

Ephesians 2:19-22; Psalm 19:2-3, 4-5; Luke 6:12-16

What is Jesus saying to us as stewards of his kingship? 

(To support  Reaching Jesus: 5 Steps to a Fuller Life... Step Five).

We Will Be Perfect

“Their message goes out through all the earth” (Psalm 19:4).

The Christian message is that “in Christ” humans are destined to be absolutely perfect.

All of us in the Church are “built upon the [divine-human] foundation of the Apostles,” men both holy and sinful, as we are (Ephesians 2:20). But we are “being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.” John saw us as “the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband” (Revelation 20:2).

The Church is the “bride of Christ.” Jesus is making her “holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the [transforming influence of his] word.” When he comes in triumph to celebrate the “wedding banquet of the Lamb,” he will “present the Church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind—yes… holy and without blemish” (Ephesians 5:27).

But Jesus began by choosing twelve Apostles, a group small like a “mustard seed” or bit of yeast in a large pot of dough. Small but active, like seeds and yeast.

Christian stewardship is by definition active. The master finds the “wise steward” at “work when he arrives” (Luke 12:43). Our first work is to grow in faith, hope and love, knowing perfection is our goal and our promised destiny.

PRAY: “Lord, give me ‘life to the full.’”

PRACTICE: Work to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.