Religious?

Sometimes people say, "Whoa! You're so religious!" Or holy.


This morning, someone said that to me and it's quite common to hear that of late.

The question is..how do we respond to such an exclamation?

I honestly do not know.

But i've one thing in mind when i hear that.

There is no such thing as being holy or religious. There is no degree to how much you are "into Godly stuff".

There is, however, a degree to how much we strive for perfection and holiness in our daily lives.

Society has a twisted view on people who pray a lot, or go to church a lot or talk about God a lot in their lives.
They think that people like that are close to God, are to be revered or to be looked up to. But it isn't at all about how many times you go to Mass or pray the rosary.

I don't deny that we should make people who are so devoted our inspiration, but here's the catch. They are not holy or religious. They're simply in love.

In love with their Creator. When you're in love with someone, you wanna tell the world about them, you wanna constantly be with them and you want to know them more and more.


So what's being religious? Nothing. Christ says that the sinners are the ones who most deserve Him. And see, we go to church and we pray..not because we've reached a point of holiness in our lives. On the contrary it's because we haven't. The greater the sinner, the more we need to approach the Holy and Perfect One.

It is us who need to constantly seek God, because we have no strength of our own without Him. Please don't just wonder in awe at those who do...because they stopped doing that at a point and put their awe into actions of love. Join me, brothers and sisters, not in becoming holy or religious-- but in journeying towards it. Without you all, i can do little. Our race is meant to be run together, though on separate tracks. Please join your hands with mine and do all you can to seek God together with me. Because where two or three are gathered in His name, there He will always be.